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- From: miw@cc.uq.oz.au (Mark I. Williams)
- Subject: Re: Cell SIze
- Message-ID: <miw.711957276@cc.uq.oz.au>
- Sender: news@bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au (USENET News System)
- Organization: Prentice Centre, University of Queensland
- References: <1992Jul18.162524.22420@sics.se>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 05:54:36 GMT
- Lines: 38
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- craig@sics.se (Craig Partridge) writes:
-
- >> In this experiment I suppose that the network managers would set the
- >> cell size so that the smaller packets, about 50-80 bytes long, would
- >> rarely fill onto cells. Am I right? What would be the actual cell size
- >> selected assuming today's traffic?
-
- >This is a fun question (even if somewhat hypothetical).
- [.......]
- >Note that if you were trying to compromise on these various tradeoffs,
- >you'd probably pick a size that balance interrupt costs and bandwidth.
- >My guess (based on what I've seen of predicted processor performance
- >and estimated packet sizes) is that you'd choose a size of about 1,000
- >bits (c. 128 bytes), which was one of the original proposals to CCITT.
-
- Yes, but...but.... This analysis considers data traffic only! Remember
- that ATM will be expected to provide other services as well. With a cell
- payload of 128 bytes echo cancellation will be even more difficult than
- with 64 bytes.
-
- Consider also a telephone-quality voice channel: the data rate is 16
- kbps. If you have a cell size of 128 bytes, the "lumpiness" is
- introducing a delay of 62.5 milliseconds before the bits have travelled
- an inch. Add a bit of buffering to smooth out delay jitter (which is
- also somewhat dependent on the cell size) and it quickly becomes
- apparent that 128 octets is "A Power too Far". Of course you could
- simply only send 32 octets per cell when you had a long-distance
- call....:-)
-
- My apologies if you *meant* only to consider data traffic.
-
- cheers,
-
- --
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