Examples of Load Models for Different Traffic Sources

Abstract

Models for different sources of network traffic are very often needed by researchers and telecommunications engineers e.g. for performance analysis studies of different network components. For simulation studies, original data traces (e.g. of voice, video, or data traffic) may indeed provide a very realistic source of loads, but their application is often restricted e.g. in long simulation runs when the repetition of the limited trace should be avoided, or in analytical studies which require a mathematical description of the traffic.