A survey on modeling IP network performance characteristics
Dong Yu-ning · Journal of China Institute of Communications · 2004
IP networks such as the Internet is increasingly becoming an important communication infrastructure, but it is still a challenge to support real-time media over the current Internet. We argue that good understanding of network performance characteristics is essential for multimedia applications over best-effort IP networks. Research on network performance characteristics includes measuring, modeling and analyzing a network to obtain quantitative or qualitative performance metrics of the network and as a result to predict, control and use the network efficiently. In this paper we classify, summarize and verify the result on network performance characteristics and obtain the fundamental performance characteristics models of IP network platform.