About the Book
A unified approach to the analysis and design of traffic management controls in circuit switching, packet switching, LAN, MAN, narrowband, and broadband integrated services networks is presented in this volume, along with an in-depth survey of management and control schemes which are used to allocate network resources to different users in a dynamic environment, meeting user performance requirements. Stress is placed on the role of measurements and network information patterns. Also included is a presentation of control procedures being insensitive to detailed values of control parameters and exact statistics of offered traffic, and performance analysis of automatic network management controls under nonstationary load conditions.
Table of Contents:
Circuit and packet switched networks. 2. Circuit switching: Routing, Congestion control, Network management and control layers. 3. Packet switching: Routing, Flow control schemes. Multiservice networks. 4. Parameters of multiservice traffic: Basic traffic characteristics; Parameters of call, burst, and packet traffic; Narrowband services; Broadband services; Comparison of traffic types; Performance requirements. 5. Transmission resources: Synchronous transmission hierarchy, Synchronous optical network, Network node interface. 6. Multiplexing, access control, and switching: Channel multiplexing, Local area networks, Metropolitan area networks, Switching architectures. 7. Multistrata resource allocation: Elements of network architecture, Decision strata, Resource allotment, Traffic control schemes, Traffic transformation at the network interface, Multistrata decisionmaking, Examples of resource allotment schemes. 8. Bandwidth management and control in B-ISDN: Traffic control protocol, Statistical multiplexing, Virtual networks and call admission policies, Bandwidth enforcement, Unfairness of access in distributed queueing, Access protection mechanism. Modelling techniques. 9. Modelling accuracy: Input process, Infinite server system. 10. Queueing models: Delay-loss systems, General service distribution, Networks of queues. 11. Time series analysis of traffic updates: Trunk group model, Statistical properties of discrete time models, Finite trunk groups with nonexponential service times, Network descriptions. 12. Diffusion Approximation: Boundary conditions, Diffusion coefficients for multi-channel systems, Diffusion approximation of queueing networks. 13. Fluid flow approximations: Dynamic flow models of multiaccess systems, Network flow patterns, Steady state flows. Performance and optimization models. 14. Teletraffic models: Variance of the overflow traffic, Equivalent trunk group method. 15. On-line traffic measurements: Analysis of traffic data from the toll network, Traffic forecasting for adaptive routing, Kalman filtering of traffic fluctuations, Network models for routing optimization, Minimum variance routing. 16. Dynamic flow patterns: Model selection, Control system design, Optimization of dynamic flows. 17. Delay analysis in packet networks: Packet network as the open queueing network, Window flow control, Mean value analysis. 18. Performance analysis of polling systems: Loop systems, Decentralized control. Methods to evaluate performance of integrated services networks. 19. Voice and data integration: Burst clipping in TASI systems, Performance of movable boundary scheme. 20. ATM multiplexing - Discrete time models: Process structure, Arrival process, Multi-layer analysis, Aggregated models, Analytical model, Numerical results, Flow control. 21. ATM multiplexing - Continous time model: Infinite buffer, Finite buffer. 22.
