Teletraffic Engineering in a Broad-Band Era

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 85, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2007-2032

  Michiel, Herman ^a,b   Laevens, Koen ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

ATM; B ISDN; Performance evaluation; Queueing theory; Statistical modeling; Teletraffic

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ASYNCHRONOUS TRANSFER MODE; BROADBAND NETWORKS; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT; QUEUEING THEORY; STATISTICAL METHODS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

STATISTICAL MULTIPLEXER; TELETRAFFIC ENGINEERING;

VOICE/DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031338888     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5.650182     Document Type: Article

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