Dynamic capacity management in the BISDN
John Burgin · International Journal of Digital & Analog Communication Systems · 1990
Abstract Use of virtual paths (VPs) in the broadband ISDN (BISDN) presents network operators with the ability to make processing intensive resource management decisions for flows of traffic instead of individual connections. Altering the amount of capacity assigned to different VPs provides the ability to reconfigure the network dynamically to respond to changes in traffic demand. This paper studies the dynamic behaviour of some algorithms for assigning capacity to VPs for a range of time‐varying offered traffic inputs.