Performance Limitation of Leaky Bucket Algorithm for Usage Parameter Control and Bandwidth Allocation Methods

Naoaki YAMANAKA  Youichi SATO  Ken-ichi SATO  

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E75-B   No.2   pp.82-86
Publication Date: 1992/02/25
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Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Communication Networks and Service
Keyword: 
ATM,  B-ISDN,  UPC,  policing,  leaky bucket,  

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Summary: 
One performance limitation of the "Leaky Bucket algorithm" for usage parameter control and traffic management in Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) networks is analyzed. Simulation results show that the conventional statistical bandwidth allocation method, which uses the most bursty pattern permitted by the Leaky Bucket algorithm, can not guarantee the QOS of established Virtual Channels/Paths (VC/VP). As a result, the VC/VP bandwidth allocation method based on the Leaky Bucket algorithm is proven to be unsatisfactory.