Queueing behavior under fractional brownian traffic

Ilkka Norros

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    Abstract

    This chapter gives an overview of some properties of the storage occupancy process in a buffer fed with “fractional Brownian traffic,” a Gaussian self‐similar process. This model, called here “fractional Brownian storage,” is the logically simplest long‐range‐dependent (LRD) storage system having strictly self‐similar input variation. The impact of the self‐similarity parameter H can be very clearly illustrated with this model. Even in this case, all the known explicitly calculable formulas for quantities like the storage occupancy distribution are only limit results, for example, large deviation asymptotics. Scaling formulas, on the other hand, hold exactly for this model.

    The simplicity is won at the price that the input model is not meaningful at the smallest time scales, where half of the “traffic” is negative. The model can be justified by rigorous limit theorems, but it should be emphasized that this involves not only a central limit theorem (CLT) argument for Gaussianity but also a heavy traffic limit. From a less rigorous, practical viewpoint one can say that fractional Brownian storage gives usable results when, at time scales relevant for queueing phenomena, the traffic consists of independent streams such that a large number of them are simultaneously active, and second‐order self‐similarity holds.

    This chapter is structured as follows. Definitions are given and then some basic scaling formulas are derived. Results based on large deviations in path space are presented. Finally, some other approaches are outlined.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationSelf-Similar Network Traffic and Performance Evaluation
    EditorsKihong Park, Walter Willinger
    Place of PublicationCanada
    PublisherWiley
    Chapter4
    Pages101-114
    ISBN (Electronic)978-0-471-20644-6
    ISBN (Print)0-471-31974-0, 978-0-471-31974-0
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2000
    MoE publication typeA3 Part of a book or another research book

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