Skew Performance Evaluation in an ATM Multimedia Multiplexer

In this paper the skew affecting a multimedia traffic stream when N multimedia streams are mixed in an ATM multiplexer is evaluated. To this purpose a multimedia source is modeled by an arrival process defined as the superposition of heterogeneous correlated arrival processes, each of which models one monomedia source by means of an MMBP process whose transition probabilities are functions of the states of the other monomedia sources. Correspondence address: Prof. Alfio Lombardo Istituto di Informatica e Telecomunicazioni, Università di Catania V.le A. Doria, 6 95125 Catania (Italy) phone: +39 95 339449 fax: +39 95 338280 e-mail: [email protected]