29th Annual Simulation Symposium (SS '96)
Simulation of /spl nu/-NET, a versatile network architecture for real-time and non-real-time traffic
New Orleans, LA
April 08-April 11
ISBN: 0-8186-7432-6
B. Field, US WEST Technol., Boulder, CO, USA
D. Mosse, US WEST Technol., Boulder, CO, USA
T. Znati, US WEST Technol., Boulder, CO, USA
The paper describes a new network architecture, called the Versatile Network Architecture (/spl nu/-NET), which provides a framework for flexible support of communication requirements in real-time networks. /spl nu/-NET differs from other proposed architectures in that it has been designed to support a variety of packet scheduling algorithms and traffic policing mechanisms. In addition, we use simulations to validate /spl nu/-NET, providing an assessment of the correctness of the scheme in guaranteeing the real-time performance requirements of a wide range of multimedia applications and quantify and analyse the effects a variety of /spl nu/-channel traffic profiles, QoS requirements, and scheduling policies on the performances of the /spl nu/-NET.
Index Terms:
real-time systems; multimedia systems; virtual machines; performance evaluation; telecommunication traffic; scheduling; information networks; wide area networks; information dissemination; nonreal-time traffic; real-time traffic; Versatile Network Architecture; /spl nu/-NET; flexible communication requirement support; real-time networks; packet scheduling algorithms; traffic policing mechanisms; simulations; /spl nu/-NET validation; correctness; real-time performance requirements; multimedia applications; /spl nu/-channel traffic profiles; QoS requirements; scheduling policies; /spl nu/-NET performance
Citation:
B. Field, D. Mosse, T. Znati, "Simulation of /spl nu/-NET, a versatile network architecture for real-time and non-real-time traffic," ss, pp.260, 29th Annual Simulation Symposium (SS '96), 1996