Importance sampling for large ATM-type queueing networks

  • Authors:
  • Pierre L'Ecuyer;Yanick Champoux

  • Affiliations:
  • Département d'Informatique et de Recherche Opérationnelle, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, Succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, H3C 3J7, Canada;Département d'Informatique et de Recherche Opérationnelle, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, Succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, H3C 3J7, Canada

  • Venue:
  • WSC '96 Proceedings of the 28th conference on Winter simulation
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

We estimate, by simulation, the cell-loss rate in an ATM switch modeled as a queueing network. Cell losses are rare events, so estimating their frequency by simulation is hard. We experiment with importance sampling as a mean of improving the simulation efficiency in that context.