Title :
On the relevance of time scales in performance oriented traffic characterizations
Author :
Montgomery, M. ; De Veciana, D.G.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Texas Univ., Austin, TX, USA
Abstract :
Efficient methods for congestion control in high-speed communication networks will be based on reasonable characterizations for traffic flows and time scale decompositions of the network dynamics. A key problem for modern network designers is to characterize/model the “bursty” traffic arising in broadband networks with a view to predicting and guaranteeing the performance. We attempt to unify several approaches ranging from histogram/interval based methods to “frequency domain” approaches by further investigating the asymptotic behavior of a multiplexer carrying a large number of streams. This analysis reveals the salient traffic/performance relationships which should guide us in selecting successful methods for traffic management and network dimensioning
Keywords :
broadband networks; multiplexing; telecommunication congestion control; telecommunication network management; telecommunication traffic; asymptotic behavior; broadband networks; bursty traffic; congestion control; frequency domain approaches; high speed communication networks; histogram/interval based methods; multiplexer; network design; network dimensioning; network dynamics; network performance; performance oriented traffic characterizations; time scale decompositions; traffic management; Admission control; Broadband communication; Communication networks; Communication system traffic control; Intelligent networks; Modems; Multiplexing; Statistics; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;
Conference_Titel :
INFOCOM '96. Fifteenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer Societies. Networking the Next Generation. Proceedings IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7293-5
DOI :
10.1109/INFCOM.1996.493343
