Modeling and Analysis of Burst Switching for Wireless Packet Data
Abstract: The third generation mobile communication needs to provide multimedia service with increased data rates. Thus an efficient allocation of radio and network resources is very important. This paper models the 'burst switching' as an efficient radio resource allocation scheme and the performance is compared to the circuit and packet switching. In burst switching, radio resource is allocated to a call for the duration of data bursts rather than an entire session or a single packet as int the case of circuit and packet switching. After a stream of data burst, if a packet does not arrive during timer2 value (t2), the channel of physical layer is released and the call stays in suspended state. Again if a packet does not arrive for timer1 value (t1) in the suspended state, the upper layer is also released. Thus the two timer values to minimize the sum of access delay and queuing delay need to be determined. In this paper, we focus on the decision of t2 which minimizes the access and queuing delay with the assumption that traffic arrivals follow Poison process. The simulation, however, is performed with Pareto distribution which well describes the bursty traffic. The computational results show that the delay and the packet loss probability by the burst switching is dramatically reduced compared to the packet switching.