A deterministic fluid model for cell loss in ATM networks
K. Y. Michael Wong, Pravin P. Varaiya · 2002
The cell loss suffered by a data stream in an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) network is studied using its loss function L( mu , beta ). This is the number of cells lost if the stream were allocated a transmission bandwidth of mu cells per second and a buffer of beta cells. Properties of the loss function are derived. Two popular allocation schemes are studied: the fixed-rate-fixed-buffer scheme and the leaky bucket scheme. An example suggests how the loss function might be used to relate pricing of bandwidth and buffer resources to the resulting cell loss.>