Performance of a Window-Based Token Protocol Supporting ATM-Like Bursty Traffic

Mingfu LI  Zsehong TSAI  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E81-B   No.3   pp.525-536
Publication Date: 1998/03/25
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Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Signaling System and Communication Protocol
Keyword: 
token protocol,  ATM,  traffic descriptor,  FDDI,  

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Summary: 
This study presents a novel window-based token protocol which supports two priority levels of ATM-like bursty traffic. The proposed protocol ensures that packets arriving during a given window period are always transmitted prior to those arriving during subsequent window periods. During which periods, high priority (delay-sensitive) packets are served by a nonpreemptive priority service discipline. Under this window-based token protocol, the delay bounds for packets of both priority levels are derived when the traffic streams satisfy the traffic descriptors. Hence, a call admission control policy based on delay bounds can be employed to guarantee QoS parameters such as the packet delay and packet loss-free requirement for each traffic stream. The protocol proposed herein can achieve tighter delay bounds than the IEEE 802. 5 token protocol and the timed token protocol used in FDDI, particularly for high priority bursty traffic, thereby making it highly attractive for supporting not only real-time multimedia VBR or CBR services such as in ATM networks but also ATM encapsulation such as in Cells In Frames (CIF) protocol.