Analysis and Design of Rate-Based Congestion Control of High Speed Networks, I: Stochastic Fluid Models, Access Regulation

The paper gives models and analytic tchniques for addressing critical issues of the Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network which will use the Asynchronous Transfer Mode. The traffic is expected to be highly bursty and variable at the source and consequently a key issue is admission control. We study a 4-parameter device called a regulator which acts as a policing device as well as a traffic shaper.