Voice over Frame Relay
Telecommunications Technologies Reference
Telecommunications Technologies Reference
Theory, Volume 1, Queueing Systems
Theory, Volume 1, Queueing Systems
Performance Analysis of Packet Encapsulation and Aggregation
MASCOTS '06 Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation
Dynamic packet aggregation to solve performance anomaly in 802.11 wireless networks
Proceedings of the 9th ACM international symposium on Modeling analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
On the Asymptotic Analysis of Packet Aggregation Systems
MASCOTS '07 Proceedings of the 2007 15th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems
System Modeling and Analysis: Foundations of System Performance Evaluation
System Modeling and Analysis: Foundations of System Performance Evaluation
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In packet communication systems, a header is attached to the transmitted packet at each layer. The overhead due to the transmission of the individual header can have a significant impact on the performance of the communication system especially when the system operates in heavy load. In order to increase data throughput, a number of packets sharing a single header can be aggregated into a frame. In this paper, we present a mathematical model for a packet aggregation system assuming a general distribution for the packet length. For a given header size, we obtain the minimum system utilization where packet aggregation improves the system performance. We also analyze the asymptotic behavior of such systems leading to a simple heuristic policy on the optimum aggregation level. It is shown that the impact of the variability of the packet length distribution on different system performance measures is rather insignificant when the system load is low or moderate.