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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 05, 1998
Arthur W. Berger, Fair Haven, NJ (US);
Yaakov Kogan, Fair Haven, NJ (US);
AT&T Corp., New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for dimensioning link bandwidth for elastic-data traffic for a link in a communications network, in which a number of connections N having elastic-data traffic flowing over a bottlenecked link in a communications network is determined. A transfer rate ?f for each connection is determined for the condition that the communications network is not a constraining resource for the connection. A per-connection bandwidth objective b is determined for elastic-data traffic flowing over the link. Lastly, a link bandwidth B for the link is dimensioned for the elastic-data traffic flowing over the link based on either a mean performance criterion or a tail performance criterion using the determined number of connections N, the determined transfer rate for each connection and the determined per-connection bandwidth objective b.