Evaluation of Effective Bandwidth Schemes for Self-Similar Traffic
Stefan Bodamer, Joachim Charzinski, Munich · 2000
In this paper, different approximations for the effective bandwidth of self-similar traffic streams are reviewed. Among those, classical approaches originally based on Markovian models are regarded in the context of self-similar traffic. On the other hand, a solution is considered that explicitly takes the long-range dependent character of the traffic stream into account by using a fractional Brownian motion model. Furthermore, we propose an effective bandwidth scheme that provides a combination of approaches from both domains. In order to achieve an objective comparison of the different schemes, an M/Pareto fluid burst has been chosen as a common traffic model, and the corresponding traffic parameters needed by the different schemes have been derived. A burst level simulation of the