ATM Network Performance

ATM Network Performance, Second Edition, describes approaches to computer and communication network management at the ATM layer of the protocol hierarchy. The focus is on satisfying quality-of-service requirements for individual connections. Results in both areas of bandwidth scheduling and traffic control are explained. Recent results in end-to-end performance, provisioning for video connections and statistical multiplexing are also described. All of the material has been updated where appropriate and new references added and expanded.
Timely updates:

• Entirely new chapter on ATM switches with an emphasis on scalable-to-terabit switching.
• New material on round-robin scheduling, jitter control, QoS paradigms as well as special treatment of fluid modeling and variable bit rate channel capacity.
• Expanded coverage of CBR channels, IP over ATM, and guaranteed-rate performance.

• Substantial increase in end-of-chapter exercises. Solutions for selected exercises in separate appendix. Complete solutions for all exercises also available from author.

  Klappentext

  ATM Network Performance, Second Edition, describes approaches to computer and communication network management at the ATM layer of the protocol hierarchy. The focus is on satisfying quality-of-service requirements for individual connections. Results in both areas of bandwidth scheduling and traffic control are explained. Recent results in end-to-end performance, provisioning for video connections and statistical multiplexing are also described. All of the material has been updated where appropriate and new references added and expanded. Timely updates: Entirely new chapter on ATM switches with an emphasis on scalable-to-terabit switching. New material on round-robin scheduling, jitter control, QoS paradigms as well as special treatment of fluid modeling and variable bit rate channel capacity. Expanded coverage of CBR channels, IP over ATM, and guaranteed-rate performance. Substantial increase in end-of-chapter exercises. Solutions for selected exercises in separate appendix. Complete solutions for all exercises also available from author.

  Inhalt
  1 Introduction.- 1.1 ATM Background.- 1.2 A Queueing Model of an ATM Network.- 1.3 The Evolving Internet.- 1.4 Organization of the Book.- 1.5 Discussion and Additional References.- 2 Discrete-Time Queues with Constant Service Rate.- 2.1 Discrete-Time Lindley Processes.- 2.2 (?, p) Constraints.- 2.3 Obtaining (?, p) Constraints via Leaky Buckets.- 2.4 Large Deviations Effective Bandwidths.- 2.5 Extremal (?, p) and Peak-Rate Constrained Traffic.- 2.6 Discussion and Additional References.- 2.7 Exercises.- 3 Bandwidth Scheduling for a Single Node.- 3.1 The Guaranteed-Rate Property.- 3.2 Round-Robin Schedulers.- 3.3 Schedulers Based on Virtual Finishing Times.- 3.4 Fair Scheduling.- 3.5 General Design Issues of Bandwidth Schedulers.- 3.6 Discussion and Additional References.- 3.7 Exercises.- 4 End-To-End Delay Bounds and Buffer Sizing.- 4.1 End-to-End Delay Bounds.- 4.2 Buffer Sizing for Lossless Transmission.- 4.3 Buffer Sizing For Idling Schedulers.- 4.4 Controlling Cell Delay Jitter.- 4.5 Extensions to Arbitrary Virtual Path Connections.- 4.6 Discussion and Additional References.- 4.7 Exercises.- 5 The Flow Control Problem for ABR Traffic.- 5.1 ABR Parameters.- 5.2 Resource Management Cells.- 5.3 RM Cell Delays.- 5.4 Buffer Sizing.- 5.5 Excess Bandwidth.- 5.6 Distributing Excess Bandwidth Fairly.- 5.7 Evaluating a Flow Control Policy.- 5.8 Discussion and References.- 6 ATM Switches with the Guaranteed-Rate Property.- 6.1 Single-Stage Switches.- 6.2 General Design Issues for Single-Stage Switches.- 6.3 Output-Buffered ATM Switches.- 6.4 Input-Buffered ATM Switches.- 6.5 Scalability.- 6.6 Input/Output-Buffering.- 6.7 Multicast Scheduling for Input-Buffered Switches.- 6.8 Discussion and Additional References.- 6.9 Exercises.- 7 Resource Provisioning for PrerecordedVideo.- 7.1 Piecewise-CBR Service.- 7.2 Quality-of-Service Requirements.- 7.3 End-to-End Provisioning.- 7.4 Discussion and Additional References.- 7.5 Exercises.- 8 Real-Time VBR Video Teleconferencing.- 8.1 A VPC for a Real-Time Video Bundle.- 8.2 QoS Requirements of the Video Flow.- 8.3 Bandwidth Requirements at Each Hop.- 8.4 Admission Control Summary.- 8.5 On-Line Traffic Measurements.- 8.6 Discussion and Additional References.- 8.7 Exercises.- References.- A Glossary of Acronyms and Short Forms.- B Solutions and References for Selected Exercises.