Study of integrated bandwidth allocation and multiplexing strategy for VP-based ATM networks

Strategies of the integrated multiplexing and bandwidth allocation based on the virtual path (VP) is realized and simulated. Effects of different virtual channel (VC) grouping policies are explored to derive the best efforts for the traffic multiplexing within a VP. According to the simulation results, a two level multiplexing structure is proposed to reduce the complexities of handling a large number of VCs in one transmission link. Finally, we derive the design tradeoffs among different performance impacts, and develop some design guidelines by pointing out key parameters that influence the system performance.<
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