An Architecture for Real-Time Control of Broadband Networks

An architecture capable of supporting real-time traffic monitoring and control, management and information transport for broadband networks is outlined. It embeds the Management, the Traffic Control and the Information Transport Architectures. The Traffic Control Architecture is characterized both as a resource manager as well as an extended machine. The traffic control model employed consists of a statistical and a dynamic database and a set of distributed algorithms that interact by writing and reading onto these databases. The latter are part of a Knowledge Database capable of supporting monitoring, control and fault management tasks.