CONTENTS

 1     Scope
 2     References
 3     Terms and definitions
 4     Abbreviations
 5     Introduction
 6     Traffic parameters and parameter control
        6.1     Source traffic descriptor
                  6.1.1     Source peak rate and cell delay variation tolerance
                  6.1.2     Sustainable cell rate parameter set
        6.2     Cell traffic variables
        6.3     Quality of service requirements
        6.4     Cell loss priority bit
        6.5     Parameter control
        6.6     Traffic shaping
 7     Performance of an ATM multiplexer
        7.1     Multiplexing constant bitrate streams
                  7.1.1     Buffer overflow probability
                  7.1.2     Impact of CDV
                  7.1.3     Negligible CDV for CBR streams
                  7.1.4     Nominal multiplexer rate
        7.2     Rate envelope multiplexing
                  7.2.1     Cell loss ratio
                  7.2.2     Multiplexing efficiency
                  7.2.3     Cell loss priority
                  7.2.4     Cell delay priority
        7.3     Rate sharing statistical multiplexing
                  7.3.1     Buffer saturation probability
                  7.3.2     Cell loss priority
                  7.3.3     Cell delay priority
        7.4     Networks of multiplexer queues
                  7.4.1     Multiplexing constant rate streams
                  7.4.2     Rate envelope multiplexing
                  7.4.3     Rate sharing
 8     Connection admission control for DBR and SBR transfer capabilities
        8.1     CAC for peak rate allocation
        8.2     CAC for rate envelope multiplexing
                  8.2.1     Known cell traffic variables
                  8.2.2     Worst-case resource allocation
                  8.2.3     Adaptive CAC
        8.3     CAC for rate sharing statistical multiplexing
                  8.3.1     Known cell traffic variables
                  8.3.2     Worst-case resource allocation
                  8.3.3     Adaptive CAC
 9     Adaptive resource management
        9.1     ABT resource management
                  9.1.1     REM and block transfer
                  9.1.2     Rate sharing and block transfer
        9.2     ABR resource management
        9.3     Traffic engineering for "elastic traffic"
                  9.3.1     Traffic characteristics
                  9.3.2     Performance requirements
                  9.3.3     Bandwidth sharing algorithms
                  9.3.4     Performance modelling
                  9.3.5     Connection admission control
10     Service integration
       10.1     Dedicated resources
       10.2     Loss priorities
       10.3     Delay priorities
                 10.3.1     Equivalent cell rate for priority service
       10.4     Scheduling policies
11     Bibliography
12     History
Appendix I – Example methods for calculation of equivalent cell rate for rate envelope multiplexing
        I.1     Equivalent cell rate method 1 [RMV96]
        I.2     Equivalent cell rate method 2 [RMV96]
        I.3     Equivalent cell rate method 3 [ViS 97]