Multiplexing Low-Speed Buffered Data Terminals

When terminals (data and/or voice), connected to an asynchronous time division multiplexer (ATDM), are buffered and operate at low speed, the arrivals at the multiplexer are correlated. In this paper, we consider the finite buffer behavior of an ATDM with such terminals. An earlier study by Rudin [6] is a special case of this approach. The treatment here is also an improvement over the analysis by Birdsall et al. [1] of an ATDM with speech sources and is suitable for packet voice applications.