On mapping stochastic processes into hardware and its application on ATM traffic emulation

Author

Antonakopoulos, Theodore ; Ziouva, Eustathia ; Makios, Vassilios

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Technol., Univ. of Patras, Rio Patras, Greece

Volume

52

Issue

3

fYear

2003

fDate

6/1/2003 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

771

Lastpage

779

Abstract

Asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) traffic emulators have been designed for demonstrating the performance of various protocols and services in ATM networks under user-defined traffic conditions. Analytical tools and traffic measurements show that specific traffic conditions can be emulated by using the superposition of various stochastic processes. This paper presents a generic method for implementing stochastic processes using dedicated hardware and describes how this method has been used for implementing a real-time traffic emulator of ATM virtual channels.

Keywords

asynchronous transfer mode; broadband networks; content-addressable storage; digital simulation; read-only storage; real-time systems; stochastic processes; telecommunication computing; telecommunication traffic; ATM networks; ATM traffic emulators; ATM virtual channels; CAM-based technique; ROM-based technique; asynchronous transfer mode networks; dedicated hardware; real-time traffic emulator; stochastic processes; traffic measurements; user-defined traffic conditions; Asynchronous transfer mode; Communication system traffic; Delay; Emulation; Error correction; Hardware; Stochastic processes; Telecommunication traffic; Timing; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9456

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TIM.2003.814672

Filename

1213660