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- From: rpw3@rigden.wpd.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.cell-relay
- Subject: Re: Bandwidth Control
- Message-ID: <ve5afh0@sgi.sgi.com>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 04:42:06 GMT
- Sender: rpw3@rigden.wpd.sgi.com
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
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- hgs@allegra.att.com (Henning G. Schulzrinne) writes:
- +---------------
- | The paper by Reibman and Berger, Globecom '92, p. 314ff does a fairly
- | in-depth comparison of CBR and VBR video (subject to leaky-bucket
- | constraints). It shows that significant multiplexing gains are possible,
- | but with leaky-bucket constraints and without knowing the source
- | behavior in advance, it will be extremely difficult to get more than
- | a factor of 2 if you want loss guarantees and if network buffers are small.
- ****************************
- | Depending on your viewpoint, this means that either
- | 1) leaky buckets and guarantees are a 'bad thing' if you want cheap
- | video service
- | 2) anything but peak rate allocation is going to be difficult, unless
- | you can describe your source very accurately (e.g., for video-on-demand)
- +---------------
-
- Or unless they drop this "small buffer" assumption!
-
- Most (but not all) ATM switches have buffers which are pitifully small
- compared to the buffer sizes one would design into a packet-switched
- network with an equivalent ammount of "VBR" traffic. As I have said before,
- ATM switches need an at least dual queue buffer system, with a set of small
- buffers for the CBR traffic and *large* (shared) buffers for VBR traffic.
- That will give enough latency buffering for the VBR traffic for traditional
- end-to-end congestion-avoidance algorithms to work (or if not that, at least
- enough for hop-by-hop per-VCI flow control to work).
-
-
- -Rob
-
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