An Analysis of Effects of TMN Functions on Performance of ATM Switches Using Jackson's Network

This paper considers the TMN system for management of public ATM switching network which has the four-level hierarchical structure consisting of one network management system, a few element management system and several agent-ATM switch pairs, respectively. The effects of one TMN command on the local call processing performance of the component ATM switch an analyzed using Jackson's queueing model. The TMN command considered is the permanent virtual call connection, and the performance measures of ATM switch are the utilization, mean queue length and mean waiting time for the processor interfacing the subscriber lines and trunks directly, and the call setup delay of the ATM switch.