Bandwidth provisioning in ADSL access networks

  • Authors:
  • Kaiqi Xiong;Harry Perros;Steven Blake

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Commerce, TX;Department of Computer Science, NC State University, Raleigh, NC;Extreme Networks, Research Triangle Park, NC

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Network Management
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We consider an ADSL access network consisting of subscribers, digital subscriber line access multiplexers (DSLAMs), metro Ethernet switches and a broadband remote access aggregation server (BRAS). We obtain expressions for dimensioning the access network in the upstream direction. Specifically, we show that the bandwidth required at each DSLAM, metro Ethernet switch, and BRAS can be expressed as an exponential function of the subscribers in a log scale when the number of subscribers does not surpass a certain value. After this value, it grows linearly as a function of the subscribers.