Latency and saturation in networks with finite buffers

  • Authors:
  • Yelena Rykalova;Lev B. Levitin

  • Affiliations:
  • Boston University, Boston, MA;Boston University, Boston, MA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 14th Communications and Networking Symposium
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

This paper is devoted to networks with different size of buffers (5, 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50). The ring and the two-dimension torus topology networks are considered, and the results are compared with these for networks with infinite buffers. The network behavior in terms of the average number of messages and the latency has been studied. Both second-order and first-order transitions to the saturation state have been observed. The results show that the model of independent queues, which is valid for networks with infinite buffers, is still applicable for the load values outside of the critical region, but breaks down, which violates the Jackson theorem.