The multi-level leaky bucket mechanism

Author

Mayor, Gilberto ; Silvester, John

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. Syst., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

fYear

1995

fDate

20-23 Sep 1995

Firstpage

380

Lastpage

387

Abstract

In this paper we present a new state estimation method based on the leaky bucket (LB) mechanism. It is called the multi-level leaky bucket (MLLB) and can be used to determine the current state of a multirate source, e.g, a Markov modulated process. The MLLB provides information about the instantaneous bit rate of a source allowing more effective flow control. We compare the performance of our mechanism to a simple leaky bucket. We show that our mechanism is able to police both the average bit rate and the average burst duration of a source which cannot be policed by a single leaky bucket. Our results were obtained by a simulation of both mechanisms

Keywords

Markov processes; asynchronous transfer mode; channel capacity; state estimation; telecommunication control; telecommunication network management; telecommunication traffic; MLLB; Markov modulated process; average bit rate; average burst duration; flow control; instantaneous bit rate; multi-level leaky bucket mechanism; multirate source; performance; state estimation method; Asynchronous transfer mode; B-ISDN; Bandwidth; Bit rate; Contracts; HDTV; ISDN; Monitoring; Probability; Protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Communications and Networks, 1995. Proceedings., Fourth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7180-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCCN.1995.540144

Filename

540144