Estimating Small Cell-Loss Ratios in ATM Switches via Importance Sampling

ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 76-105

  L'Ecuyer, Pierre ^a   Champoux, Yanick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

ATM; Importance sampling; Rare events; Variance reduction

Indexed keywords

BUFFER STORAGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEURISTIC METHODS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MARKOV PROCESSES; PACKET NETWORKS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; QUEUEING NETWORKS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS; SWITCHING NETWORKS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

CELL-LOSS RATIOS; IMPORTANCE SAMPLING; RARE EVENTS; VARIANCE REDUCTION;

ASYNCHRONOUS TRANSFER MODE;

EID: 0012260732     PISSN: 10493301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/379525.379528     Document Type: Article

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