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8.17 E ect of Long-Range Dependent (LRD) VBR background<br />

tra c<br />

We have studied <strong>the</strong> <strong>ABR</strong> model extensively with di erent source tra c patterns<br />

like persistent sources, ON-OFF bursty sources, p<strong>in</strong>g pong sources, TCP sources and<br />

source-bottlenecked VCs. Many of <strong>the</strong>se studies have also considered <strong>the</strong> per<strong>for</strong>mance<br />

<strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> presence of ON-OFF VBR background tra c.<br />

In reality, VBR consists of multiplexed compressed audio and video application<br />

tra c, each shaped by leaky buckets at <strong>the</strong>ir respective Susta<strong>in</strong>ed Cell <strong>Rate</strong> (SCR)<br />

and Peak Cell <strong>Rate</strong> (PCR) parameters. Compressed video has been shown to be long-<br />

range dependent by nature [13]. Compressed audio and video streams belong<strong>in</strong>g to a<br />

s<strong>in</strong>gle program are expected to be carried over an ATM network us<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> MPEG-2<br />

Transport Stream facility asoutl<strong>in</strong>ed <strong>in</strong> reference [34].<br />

In this section, we rst present amodelofmultiplexed MPEG-2 transport streams<br />

carried over ATM us<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> VBR service. Each stream exhibits long-range depen-<br />

dence, i.e., correlation over large time scales. We <strong>the</strong>n study <strong>the</strong> e ect of this VBR<br />

background on <strong>ABR</strong> connections carry<strong>in</strong>g TCP le transfer applications on WAN<br />

and satellite con gurations. The e ect of such VBR tra c is that <strong>the</strong> <strong>ABR</strong> capacity<br />

is highly variant. We nd that a proper switch algorithm like ERICA+ can tolerate<br />

this variation <strong>in</strong> <strong>ABR</strong> capacity while ma<strong>in</strong>ta<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g high throughput and low delay. We<br />

will present simulation results <strong>for</strong> terrestrial and satellite con gurations.<br />

8.17.1 Overview of MPEG-2 over ATM<br />

In this section, we give a short <strong>in</strong>troduction to <strong>the</strong> MPEG-2 over ATM model and<br />

<strong>in</strong>troduce some MPEG-2 term<strong>in</strong>ology. For a detailed discussion, see reference [77].<br />

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