A combined performance study of a fault-tolerant ATM switch and a video compression system

Author

Goli, Praveen K. ; Kumar, Vijay P. ; Reibman, Amy R.

Author_Institution

AT&T Bell Labs., Holmdel, NJ, USA

fYear

1991

fDate

2-5 Dec 1991

Firstpage

1

Abstract

The authors investigate the ability of a fault-tolerant ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) switch to switch the traffic generated by a variable bit rate video compression system. They also study the robustness of the video compression system to recover from the packet loss that is sustained in the ATM switch. Several cases are studied, including: fault-free performance; performance in the presence of single faults, with a focus on the effect of the location of the fault; the effect of the fault tolerant routing scheme employed; and the effect of varying the burst size of the video traffic. Based on the results of the study, recommendations are made on the mode of operation of the ATM switch

Keywords

ISDN; broadband networks; data compression; electronic switching systems; encoding; time division multiplexing; video signals; B-ISDN; asynchronous transfer mode; burst size variation; fault tolerant routing scheme; fault-tolerant ATM switch; packet loss recovery; single faults; variable bit rate; video compression system; video traffic; Asynchronous transfer mode; Delay; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; Packet switching; Routing; Switches; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; Video compression;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 1991. GLOBECOM '91. 'Countdown to the New Millennium. Featuring a Mini-Theme on: Personal Communications Services

Conference_Location

Phoenix, AZ

Print_ISBN

0-87942-697-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.1991.188346

Filename

188346