Paper Info
Title
Economics of Buffer Space Provisioning in Data-Communication Systems
Abstract
In data communication systems, the system designers oftenface the quintessential dilemma of how much buffer spacefor storing packet or cell data is to be provided to satisfyperformance requirements cost effectively.The dilemma iscreated by the pitfalls associated with the over-provisioningand the under-provisioning of buffer space.The over-provi-sioning of buffer space triggers the increased system cost interms of board space and the price of the total solution.Theunder-provisioning, on the other hand, triggers instability ofthe system leading to performance degradation causingeventual system failure.The performance degradation mani-fests itself in packet or cell drops potentially triggeringincreased number of re-transmissions at the higher layerswhich is detrimental to the network goodput all together.Thus finding an optimal operating point in the Buffer Space-Line Rate plane is critical to the operation of system whileproducing a cost-effective solution.The paper analyzes thetheory and practical aspects involved in sizing buffer spacein general terms.
Year
DOI
Venue
2001
10.1109/LCN.2001.990820
LCN
Keywords
Field
DocType
buffer storage,computer network management,data communication,economics,packet switching,queueing theory,resource allocation,buffer space provisioning,cell data storage,cost-effective solution,data communication systems,network management,over-provisioning,packet data storage,performance degradation,queueing theory,resource provisioning,system cost,system failure,system instability,under-provisioning
Operating point,Computer science,Network packet,Computer network,Communications system,Provisioning,Queueing theory,Resource allocation,Goodput,Packet switching,Distributed computing
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0742-1303
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Srihari Varada101.01