The Effectiveness of Multi-Level Policing Mechanisms in ATM Traffic Control

Statistical multiplexing was adopted in the ATM standard due to its potential for effective use of bandwidth. Coping with diverse Quality-of-Service requirements and with the variable-bit rate nature of multimedia applications makes traffic control a challenging task. In this paper, we show the advantages of adopting multi-level policing mechanism for ATM traffic control and compare different multi-level mechanisms based on the Leaky Bucket, on the Sliding Window and on the Jumping Window mechanism

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