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Data network models of burstiness

Part of: Operations research and management science Special processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

Bernardo D'Auria  and
Sidney I. Resnick
Bernardo D'Auria*
Affiliation:
EURANDOM
Sidney I. Resnick*
Affiliation:
Cornell University
*
∗ Postal address: EURANDOM, Den Dolech 2, 5612 A2 Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Email address: bdauria@eurandom.tue.nl
∗∗ Postal address: School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA. Email address: sir1@cornell.edu
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Abstract

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We review characteristics of data traffic which we term stylized facts: burstiness, long-range dependence, heavy tails, bursty behavior determined by high-bandwidth users, and dependence determined by users without high transmission rates. We propose an infinite-source Poisson input model which supplies traffic in adjacent time slots. We study properties of the model as slot width decreases and traffic intensity increases. This model has the ability to account for many of the stylized facts.

Keywords

Bursty trafficM/G/∞ input modelinfinite-source Poisson modelnetwork modelinglimit distributionLévy processGaussian limit

MSC classification

Primary: 90B15: Network models, stochastic 60K30: Applications (congestion, allocation, storage, traffic, etc.)
Secondary: 90B22: Queues and service 90B18: Communication networks

Information

Type
General Applied Probability
Information
Advances in Applied Probability , Volume 38 , Issue 2 , June 2006 , pp. 373 - 404
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 2006 

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