IBP-Masi
1994/01:
Rapport de Recherche Masi /
Masi research reports
14 pages - Mars/March 1994 -
French document.
PostScript : Ko /Kb
Titre / Title: Using "Excited States" in Estimating Cell Losses in a Limited Capacity System
Abstract : Loss rate in a queueing system with limited capacity is not easy to estimate. Most of the time, losses are rare events and their simulation is not obvious. Moreover, a matrix approach is not obvious either, since an efficient aggregation of the states anteceding losses is rarely possible.
The present work was undertaken as a part of a more general research work concerning an ATM node, built upon the Clos network scheme. Such a system can be described with a discrete-time Markov-chain, with deterministic time of service.
We introduce a set of new events, with vanishing durations, corresponding to an overload of the buffers. That method will induce a simpler description of the loss process, thus enabling a quicker resolution with usual solvers.
A variety of results are obtained with that method, especiallyt results concerning correlations between losses and the number of cells in the whole system.
Publications internes Masi 1994 / Masi research reports 1994