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Tra c <strong>Management</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Available</strong> <strong>Bit</strong> <strong>Rate</strong> (<strong>ABR</strong>) <strong>Service</strong><br />

<strong>in</strong> Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Networks<br />

By<br />

Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, Ph.D.<br />

The Ohio State University, 1997<br />

Raj Ja<strong>in</strong>, Adviser<br />

With <strong>the</strong> merger of telecommunication, enterta<strong>in</strong>ment and computer <strong>in</strong>dustries, com-<br />

puter network<strong>in</strong>g is adopt<strong>in</strong>g a new paradigm called Asynchronous Transfer Mode<br />

(ATM) network<strong>in</strong>g. ATM networks have multiple service classes allow audio, video<br />

and data to share <strong>the</strong> same network. Of <strong>the</strong>se, <strong>the</strong> <strong>Available</strong> <strong>Bit</strong> <strong>Rate</strong> (<strong>ABR</strong>) service<br />

class is designed to e ciently support data tra c.<br />

Tra c management <strong>in</strong>volves <strong>the</strong> design of a set of mechanisms which ensure that<br />

<strong>the</strong> network bandwidth, bu er and computational resources are e ciently utilized<br />

while meet<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> various Quality of <strong>Service</strong> (QoS) guarantees given to sources as<br />

part of a tra c contract. The general problem of network tra c management <strong>in</strong>-<br />

volves all <strong>the</strong> available tra c classes. In this dissertation, we address <strong>the</strong> problem<br />

of design<strong>in</strong>g tra c management mechanisms <strong>for</strong> one class -<strong>the</strong><strong>ABR</strong> service class <strong>in</strong><br />

ATM networks.<br />

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