11/13/2010· Telecommunication
Modeling Multiple IP Traffic Streams
By: David Lucantoni, PhD, Daniel P Heyman
Two of the many many applications of queueing models in communications networks are sizing links in transport networks and buffers in routers. A fundamental part of a queueing model is the arrival process. A Markov-modulated Poisson process (MMPP) is an attractive model for describing backbone packet traffic.