Constant Bit Rate (CBR)


In ATM networks, one of the important requirements is low cell delay with constant bit rate of cell delivery. This is the most important in delay-sensitive applications such as voice communication, cannot produce long delays among their cells. Cell-delay variations can occur at both source and destination sides.
In ATM networks, certain algorithm is used to maintain the Constant Bit Rate (CBR).

Let Cn be the cell, to produce the n number of delay variations, k be the constant rate at which cells are delivered to users. The interval between two consecutive arriving cells is 1/k Let tn be the time at which the nth cell is received. Then the variable delay for nth cell is represented as, We assume c1 is the first cell and the second cell is represented as,

* Increasing both the network resources and the data rate at the user interface the celldelay variation can be reduced. Because cells are small and fixed in size, their delay will be lower at the network level.
* To avoid congestion in any network resource allocation has to be controlled.

* The key factors that influence traffic management in ATM networks are latency and cell delay variation.

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