The authors examine a distributed reservation TDMA (time division multiple access) algorithm for dynamic handling of bursty traffic in an ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) multiservice user-oriented satellite network. Major aspects associated with the achievement of efficiency, robustness, and fairness are high-lighted. A performance evaluation carried out by means of an accurate simulation model is prsented: a key issue is the adoption of a two-state Markov representation for bursty sources. Simulation results show the advantages (in terms of bandwidth usage) of this access technique with respect to a possible static peak bit-rate bandwidth assignment
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Telecommunications Symposium, 1990. ITS '90 Symposium Record., SBT/IEEE International
Date of Conference: 3-6 Sep 1990