Broadband Network Traffic: Performance Evaluation and Design of Broadband Multiservice Networks

James Roberts, Ugo Mocci, Jorma Virtamo (eds.)3540618155, 9783540618157

This coherently structured and authorative text is the final report of the European Action COST 242, devoted to advancing research in the field of multiservice network design and performance evaluation.
The excellent results presented are largely based on some 240 action reports compiled in cooperation between researchers from academia and professionals from industry and discussed during the COST 242 meetings. The 18 chapters of the book are divided into parts on traffic control in broadband networks, broadband network design, and traffic models and queueing analysis; also included is a bibliography listing 412 entries. This work essentially advances the state of the art in the area and is relevant to the international networking community at large.

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Table of contents :
Broadband traffic characteristics….Pages 1-46
Broadband service models….Pages 47-62
Accounting for cell delay variation….Pages 63-83
Statistical resource sharing….Pages 85-114
Connection admission control….Pages 115-171
Weighted fair queueing….Pages 173-187
Access network design….Pages 189-211
MAC protocols for access to B-ISDN….Pages 213-233
Generic architecture and core network design….Pages 235-252
Multiservice network dimensioning….Pages 253-270
Virtual path network design….Pages 271-280
Resource management and routing….Pages 281-299
Traffic modelling….Pages 301-369
General tools for queueing analysis….Pages 371-387
Cell scale queueing….Pages 389-439
Burst scale loss systems….Pages 441-455
Burst scale delay systems….Pages 457-512
Multi-rate models….Pages 513-545