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Minimizing consecutive packet loss in real-time ATM sessions
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Minimizing consecutive packet loss in real-time ATM sessions

Chaewoo W Lee and Mark S Andersland
1994 IEEE GLOBECOM. Communications: The Global Bridge, pp.935-940
1994
DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOM.1994.512796

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Abstract

Packet loss probability alone does not provide a complete characterization of the quality of a network's real-time packet sessions. Additional performance measures such as the average consecutive packet loss (the so called 'average packet gap') must be considered. In this paper we propose to improve the packet gap performance of Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) sessions by minimizing the average packet gap present in the network's buffers. We introduce a simple packet dropping policy that, in steady state, minimizes: (i) the average packet gap, and (ii) the average packet buffering delay, when this delay can be reduced without increasing the average packet gap, or packet loss probability.

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