PERFORMANCE MODELLING OF PIPELINED CIRCUIT SWITCHING UNDER MMPP TRAFFIC
Geyong Min, Mohamed Ould‐Khaoua · Journal of Interconnection Networks · 2001
Performance properties of switching methods used in existing interconnection networks have been mainly examined under the assumption that network traffic follows the Poisson arrival process. However, the Poisson process is unable to capture the bursty nature of traffic. In this paper we propose the first analytical model for pipelined circuit switching under bursty traffic using the Markov-Modulated Poisson Process (MMPP). Simulation experiments reveal that the proposed model exhibits a good degree of accuracy for various networks sizes and under different traffic conditions.