H-BIND: A New Approach to Providing Statistical Performance Guarantees to VBR Traffic

TitleH-BIND: A New Approach to Providing Statistical Performance Guarantees to VBR Traffic
Publication TypeTechnical Report
Year of Publication1995
AuthorsKnightly, E. W.
Other Numbers974
Abstract

Current solutions to providing statistical performance guarantees to bursty traffic such as compressed video encounter several problems: 1) source traffic descriptors are often too simple to capture the burstiness and important time-correlations of VBR sources or too complex to be used for admission control algorithms; 2) stochastic descriptions of a source are inherently difficult for the network to enforce or police; 3) multiplexing inside the network's queues may change the stochastic properties of the source in an intractable way, precluding the provision of end-to-end QoS guarantees to heterogeneous sources with different performance requirements. In this paper, we present a new approach to providing end-to-end statistical performance guarantees that overcomes these limitations. We term the approach Hybrid Bounding Interval Dependent (H-BIND) because it uses the Deterministic-BIND traffic model to capture the correlation structure and burstiness properties of a stream; but unlike a deterministic performance guarantee, it achieves a Statistical Multiplexing Gain (SMG) by exploiting the statistical properties of deterministically-bounded streams. Using traces of MPEG-compressed video, we show that the H-BIND scheme can achieve average network utilizations of up to 86% in a realistic scenario.

URLhttp://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/ftp/global/pub/techreports/1995/tr-95-034.pdf
Bibliographic Notes

ICSI Technical Report TR-95-034

Abbreviated Authors

E. W. Knightly

ICSI Publication Type

Technical Report