Publication No 31141

Author(s)

Dolzer, K.*; Payer, W.*; Eberspächer, M.*

Title

A simulation study on traffic aggregation in multi-service networks

Topics

Access Networks; Broadband Networks; Internet; Quality of Service; Multimedia

Methods

Traffic Engineering; Performance Evaluation; Measurement and Trials

Keywords

EFFECTIVE BANDWIDTH; ACCESS NETWORK; TRAFFIC GENERATOR; TRAFFIC ENGINEERING; QOS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; MULTIMEDIA; COST; AGGREGATION

Abstract

In this paper several different strategies for traffic aggregation in enterprise networks formed by LANs that are interconnected via a WAN are compared. We discuss on the one hand the gain in time and space requirements in the WAN dependent on the number of aggregates and on the other hand the experienced waiting time as an important measure of QoS for real-time applications. Our simulation results show that not only the need of resources diminishes if audio and video sources are grouped in one aggregate, but also the waiting time improves significantly.

Year

2000

Reference entry

Dolzer, K.; Payer, W.; Eberspächer, M.
A simulation study on traffic aggregation in multi-service networks
Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (ATM 2000), Heidelberg, June 2000, pp. 157-165

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