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- Recommendation E.710
- ISDN TRAFFIC REQUIREMENTS OVERVIEW
- 1 Introduction
- This Recommendation outlines the general consideration in modelling
- traffic flows in ISDNs. More detailed descriptions for specific services and
- significant points1) in the network are given in Recommendations of the E.710
- Series as follows:
- E.711 - User Demand
- E.712 - User Plane Traffic Models
- E.713 - Control Plane Traffic Models
- E.714 - Management Plane Traffic Models.
- Additional Recommendations in this Series will be developed in the future
- to reflect ISDN developments.
- Note - Recommendations E.712 and E.714 are for further study.
- 2 Context
- ISDN concepts, services and networks are described in the Series I
- Recommendations. The E.710 Series of Recommendations have been developed
- consistent with the approach. However, the grouping of material in the E.710
- Series concentrates on the important aspects from a traffic point of view of ISDN
- operations in the immediate future.
- An important modelling technique used to represent ISDN capabilities is
- the layered architecture described in Recommendations I.310 and I.320. The E.710
- Series have been developed using this approach. At present the E.710 Series
- concentrates on lower layer (1-3) traffic flows. Higher layer traffic flows are
- for further study.
- The user plane/control plane perspectives described in Recommendation
- I.320 have been used to provide two separate traffic models in Recommendations
- E.712 and E.713. Nevertheless, it should be kept in mind that many traffic
- engineering procedures described in subsequent E.700 Recommendations require
- incorporating traffic loads from both planes using the same resources. The
- influence of the management plane is for further study.
- The ISDN reference connections used in the E.710 Series are those given in
- Recommendation E.701.
- 3 User demand
- ISDN users have various needs for information transfer. The user and his
- terminal equipment transform these needs into a series of call demands for
- available ISDN services. These transformations involve many functions including
- coding, and peer-to-peer and inter-layer protocols. The higher layer functions
- are not analysed in the E.710 Series.
- Recommendation E.711 starts from the expression by the user of a call
- demand to use the ISDN services defined in Recommendations I.230 and I.240.
- Corresponding traffic variables including the number of attempts per call demand
- are derived for the relevant attributes of each service.
- 4 User plane
- In the user plane the attributes of some ISDN services give rise to
- additional traffic parameters beyond those used in telephony. Based on the user
- models of Recommendation E.711, Recommendation E.712 will be developed in the
- future to derive traffic models for each basic ISDN service using a common set of
- parameters that applies to all services.
- 5 Control plane
- Each attempt from a terminal will result in signalling messages in the
- control plane. The number of messages and their length are highly dependent on:
- - protocols (S.S. No. 7 and Q.931 digital access);
- - call disposition (including user facilities);
- - originating and terminating subscriber equipment configurations (e.g.
- overlap sending).
- Control plane traffic models given in Recommendation E.713.
- 6 Further developments
- The preceding sections of this Recommendation and the Recommendations of
- the E.710 Series concentrate on those services and facilities which will
- predominate in the first ISDNs to be implemented.
- However, the ISDN concepts include the inherent possibility of developing
- completely new services and functions in response to changing user needs. This
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- 1) significant points are points in the network where traffic flows and grades of service
- should be evaluated.
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- will result in new traffic situations that will need to be covered in the E.710
- Series. Some of the situations which can be anticipated are:
- - the impact of supplementary services, such as call waiting, on control
- plane traffic;
- - new ISDN capabilities such as statistical switching and dynamic
- allocation;
- - connectionless communications;
- - the impact of user-to-user signalling;
- - the impact of multipresentation type calls, and simultaneous use of
- different interactive and distribution services, involving multi-slot
- and multipoint connections, and broadcast mode.
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