Admission control and routing in ATM networks using inferences from measured buffer occupancy

C. Courcoubetis, G. Kesidis, A. Ridder, J. Walrand, and R. Weber, IEEE Transactions on Communications, 43, 1778-1784, 1995.

Abstract

We address the issue of call acceptance and routing in ATM networks.
Our goal is to design an algorithm that guarantees bounds on the fraction
of cells lost by a call.  The method we propose for call acceptance and
routing does not require models describing the traffic.  Each switch estimates
the additional fraction of cells that would be lost if new calls were
routed through the switch.  The routing algorithm uses three estimates.
The estimates are obtained by monitoring the switch operations and
extrapolating to the situation where more calls are routed through the
switch.  The extrapolation is justified by a scaling property.  To
reduce the variance of the estimates, the switches calculate the cell loss
that would occur with virtual buffers.  A way to choose the sizes of the
virtual buffers in order to minimize the variance is discussed.  Thus,
the switches constantly estimate their spare capacity.  Simulations were
performed using Markov fluid sources to test the validity of our approach.

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