Statistical Multiplexing and Buffer Sharing in Multimedia High-speed Networks: A Frequency Domain Perspective

In this paper we study the effectiveness of Statistical Multiplexing and Buffer Sharing under the multimedia high-speed networking environment. Our focus is on the impact of frequency domain source characteristics on dynamic resource-sharing. By applying a novel statistical matching technique, we have investigated the multiplexing performance of a wide-range of traffic sources. Various operating conditions and different Quality of Service (QoS) requirements have been considered. The objective is to quantify the potential gain in performance due to statistical multiplexing and buffer-sharing under the BISDN, multimedia environment. The trade-offs among different network design alternatives are also discussed. The research reported here was supported by NSF Research Grant NCR-9015757, the Texas Advanced Research Program (TARP-33) and by Southwestern Bell. 1 Introduction An essential feature of the ATM-based solution for BISDN is its potential to use the same set of network resources..