Inverse multiplexing for ATM. Operation, applications and performance evaluation for the cell loss ratio

Author

Aguilar-Igartua, Monica ; Garcia-Haro, Joan ; Postigo-Boix, Marcos

Author_Institution

Dept. de Matematica Aplicada i Telematica, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

472

Lastpage

481

Abstract

The growing demands of bandwidth users make, indicate that access to ATM networks is an important issue. Inverse multiplexing for ATM (IMA) is a technology that combines multiple T1/E1 links to create a single logical data trunk which bandwidth is the aggregate of the T1/E1 ones, minus a small amount due to overhead. By using this technology, it is possible to have ATM connections with data rates between the T1/E1 (an economical but too slow option) and T3/E3 ones (with high bandwidth, but expensive). Also, it is interesting to have expressions easy to compute that approximate the main quality of service parameters of inverse multiplexers (IMUX) to help network planners in the dimensioning of these systems. In this paper, we study an estimate for the cell loss ratio (CLR) measured in the IMUX devices

Keywords

approximation theory; asynchronous transfer mode; multiplexing equipment; quality of service; telecommunication network planning; ATM; IMUX; T3/E3 links; approximation; bandwidth aggregation; cell loss ratio; dimensioning; inverse multiplexers; inverse multiplexing; logical data trunk; multiple T1/E1 links; network planners; performance evaluation; quality of service; Asynchronous transfer mode; Bandwidth; Costs; Electronic mail; Local area networks; Mathematics; Multiplexing; Performance loss; Quality of service; Telematics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

ATM, 1999. ICATM '99. 1999 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Colmar

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5428-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICATM.1999.786840

Filename

786840