
PXB 4330 E
References
Semiconductor Group
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Application Note 11.98
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References
1. PXB 4330 E Version 1.1, ABM "ATM Buffer Manager", Preliminary Data Sheet 08.98
DS2
2. PXB 4310 E Version 1.1, ASM "ATM Switching Matrix", Preliminary Data Sheet 12.97
DS2
3.
Application Note 07.98, ’Cascading of ABM Devices to Increase the Number of
Schedulers’
4. ATM Forum, TM Group, Text for Living List Item 96-003, "Guaranteed Frame Rate
Service (GFR)"
Traffic Management
Two standards are available about traffic management, from ITU and from ATM Forum:
5. ITU-T Recommendation I.371, “Traffic Control and Congestion Control in B-ISDN”,
2nd Release, Geneva, Switzerland, March 1996
6. ATM Forum, Traffic Management Specification Version 4.0, April 1996
In addition numerous articles about traffic management continue to be published each
year. Traffic management still has many unknown aspects giving raise to research and
investigation. The articles selected here provide the basics for the principles used in the
ABM.
The cell level congestion occurring when several independent sources send random cell
traffic into one queue can be solved analytically. This scenario applies to the real time
queue of a scheduler. The required queue size for a given cell loss probability is calcu-
lated in this paper:
7. D. Lampe, “Traffic Studies of a Multiplexer in an ATM Network and Applications to the
future Broadband ISDN”, International Journal of Digital and Analog Cabled Systems,
Vol. 2, 1989
In the case of bursty real time traffic (VBR-rt) statistical multiplexing gain can be
achieved by the fact that it is very unlikely that many uncorrelated sources send bursts
simultaneously. The total bit rate to be reserved for an ensemble of such connections
can be lower than the sum of the individual peak bit rates. The following articles propose
algorithms to calculate the sum rate:
8. E. Wallmeier, “A Connection Acceptance Algorithm for ATM Networks Based on Mean
and Peak Bit Rates”, International Journal of Digital and Analog Communication Sys-
tems, Vol. 3, 1990
9. E. Wallmeier and C. Hauber, “Blocking Probabilities in ATM Pipes controlled by a
Connection Acceptance Algorithm base on mean and peak rates”, Queuing, Perfor-
mance and Control in ATM, ITC-13 Workshops, Elsevier Science Publishers B.V.,
1991
An general overview about the support of data traffic in ATM networks can be found in: