USING A PACKET SWITCH FOR CIRCUIT-SWITCHED TRAFFIC: A QUEUEING SYSTEM WITH PERIODIC INPUT TRAFFIC.

Mark J. Karol, Michael G. Hluchyj

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Abstract

The effects of time-multiplexed, stream traffic on the performance of a store-and-forward packet switch are analyzed. It is found that there is a tradeoff between the amount of buffering in the switch and the probability that an existing circuit connection is disrupted. Substantially reducing the amount of buffering in the switch, however, results in there being only a small probability that an existing circuit will be disrupted during the length of its connection. For example, with a circuit switching frame of length 70 and 100% loading, reducing the buffer size from 69 to 23 results in only a 10**-**6 circuit disruption probability.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1677-1682
Number of pages6
JournalConference Record - International Conference on Communications
StatePublished - 1987

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