Title :
Peak rate regulation maintains service quality in ATM LAN/WAN interconnection
Author_Institution :
AT&T Bell Labs., Murray Hill, NJ, USA
Abstract :
Cell delay variations can cause a cell stream traversing an ATM LAN to occasionally exceed a connection´s negotiated peak cell rate at the entry point to an ATM WAN, resulting in undesired cell discard. The article shows through analysis and simulation that peak rate regulation enables a traffic source to maintain a desired service quality despite changes in LAN usage. This approach promises to lower an ATM WAN user´s communications costs by allowing the user to pay only for actual delay variations, rather than worst case delay variations
Keywords :
LAN interconnection; asynchronous transfer mode; telecommunication services; telecommunication traffic; wide area networks; ATM LAN/WAN interconnection; cell delay variations; communications costs; peak rate regulation; service quality; simulation; traffic source; Asynchronous transfer mode; Communication system traffic control; Contracts; Costs; Delay; LAN interconnection; Local area networks; Switches; Telecommunication traffic; Wide area networks;
Conference_Titel :
INFOCOM '94. Networking for Global Communications., 13th Proceedings IEEE
Conference_Location :
Toronto, Ont.
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-5570-4
DOI :
10.1109/INFCOM.1994.337647
