VISTA: a configurable visualization and simulation tool for ATM switches

Author

Tummala, N.R. ; Robbins, Kay A.

Author_Institution

Div. of Comput. Sci., Texas Univ., San Antonio, TX, USA

fYear

1996

Firstpage

223

Lastpage

226

Abstract

VISTA, a configurable visualization and simulation tool, is designed to show the dynamic behavior of ATM switches. VISTA provides builtin support for two simulated switching architectures (tandem Banyan and shared bus), a parametric traffic generating model, four output buffering schemes (no buffering, pushout, buffer sharing, and selective discarding), and an interactive graphical user interface. A user can add additional switching architectures through the configurable interface that the tool provides, and VISTA allows the user to make an MPEG movie of the visualization for later viewing and analysis

Keywords

asynchronous transfer mode; buffer storage; computer architecture; computer networks; data visualisation; graphical user interfaces; packet switching; performance evaluation; virtual machines; ATM switches; MPEG movie; VISTA; configurable interface; configurable visualization and simulation tool; dynamic ATM switch behaviour; interactive graphical user interface; output buffering schemes; parametric traffic generating model; shared bus architecture; simulated switching architectures; switching architectures; tandem Banyan architecture; Asynchronous transfer mode; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Computer simulation; Motion pictures; Switches; Throughput; Traffic control; User interfaces; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, 1996. MASCOTS '96., Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7235-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MASCOT.1996.501022

Filename

501022