Design of real-time VBR traffic shaping schemes by considering the impact of both buffer overflows and deadline violations

Abstract

While smoothing the traffic of time sensitive applications at the user premises can reduce the losses due to buffer overflows within the network, it may have an adverse effect on the losses due to the deadline violations due to the delay introduced by the smoothing process. In this paper, these loss factors are investigated and some simple metrics that capture the potential for buffer overflow and deadline violation losses under a traffic shaping scheme are introduced. Such metrics can be useful for the design of effective traffic shaping schemes that balance the adverse effects of buff-er overflow and deadline violation losses. An example of a more effective traffic shaping scheme is presented and its performance is compared to that of some more traditional schemes.