Saito, H. and Tsuchiya, T., "Upper bound of loss probability for self-similar traffic," ICC'96
We investigate Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) networks with self-similar traffic. We propose upper bound formulas of cell loss ratio, which is one of the most important quality-of-service measures in ATM networks. The existing formulas are extended to apply the situation that an ATM multiplexer in a switch is managed by the local information of traffic. By using a trace-driven simulator, we show that the proposed upper bound formulas for cell loss ratio are applicable to the self-similar traffic and can be a practical solution for the control and dimensioning of ATM networks. Numerical results also show the impacts of cell assembly and shaping on self-similarity when source traffic is self-similar.