On the impact of variability on the buffer dynamics in IP networks

Joo, Youngmi
Ribeiro, Vinay
Feldmann, Anja
Gilbert, Anna
Willinger, Walter

Abstract

The main objective of this paper is to demonstrate in the context of a simple TCP/IPbased network that depending on the underlying assumptions about the inherent nature of the variability of network traffic, very different conclusions can be derived for a number of well-studied and apparently well-understood problems in the areas of traffic engineering and management. For example, by either fully ignoring or explicitly accounting for the empirically observed variability of network traffic at the source level, we provide detailed ns-2-based simulation results for two commonly-used traffic workload scenarios that can give rise to fundamentally different buffer dynamics in IP routers. We also discuss a set of ns-2 simulation experiments to illustrate that the queueing dynamics within ...

Keywords

variability
buffer dynamics
traffic

Notes

The effect of different traffic sources on buffer dynamics

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Bibtex

 
@misc{ joo_ribeiro_feldmann.ipvar99,
    author = "Y. Joo and V. Ribeiro and A. Feldmann and A. Gilbert and W. Willinger",
    title = "the impact of variability on the buffer dynamics in IP networks",
    text = "Y. Joo, V. Ribeiro, A. Feldmann, A. C. Gilbert, and W. Willinger, On the impact of variability on the buffer dynamics in IP networks, Proc. of the 37th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Allerton, IL, Sept. 22-24 1999. Available at www.dsp.rice.edu/publications.",
    year = "1999"
}

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