Performance modeling of a finite capacity polling system with ATM bursty and correlated input traffic

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Jou, Y. Frank | Nilsson, Arne A. | Lai, Fuyung

Affiliations: Advanced Networking Research, Information Technologies Division, MCNC, P.O. Box 12889, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA Tel.: +1 919 248 1409; E‐mail: jou@mcnc.org | Center for Advanced Computing and Communication, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695‐7914, USA | GVC Corporation, 69 Ting‐Hu First Street, Kwei‐Shan Hsiang, Tao‐Yuan Hsien, Taiwan, ROC

Abstract: This paper is concerned with the mean delay and the probability of cell loss that bursty and correlated arrivals incur in an ATM switching system which can be modeled as a finite capacity polling system with nonexhaustive cyclic service. The arrival process to each input port of the system is modeled by a Markov Modulated Bernoulli Process (MMBP) which is able to describe the bursty and correlated nature of the ATM traffic. A practical polling system with finite capacity, as the one we deal with here, does not lend itself to an exact solution. In this paper, we introduce a tractable approach to provide an analytical approximation. This approach is validated extensively by comparing it against simulation results under different configurations. It is shown that both the mean delays and the cell loss probabilities obtained from this analysis provide highly accurate estimates.

Journal: Journal of High Speed Networks, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 281-301, 1999