The Markov-modulated Poisson process (MMPP) cookbook
Performance Evaluation
Measuring ISP topologies with rocketfuel
Proceedings of the 2002 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Why is the internet traffic bursty in short time scales?
SIGMETRICS '05 Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Net neutrality: the technical side of the debate: a white paper
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
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The benefit of Class-of-Service (CoS) is an important topic in the "Network Neutrality" debate. Proponents of network neutrality suggest that over-provisioning is a viable alternative to CoS. We quantify the extra capacity requirement for an over-provisioned classless (i.e., best-effort) network compared to a CoS network providing the same delay or loss performance for premium traffic. We first develop a link model that quantifies this Required Extra Capacity (REC). For bursty and realistic traffic distributions, we find the REC using ns-2 simulation comparisons of the CoS and classless link cases. We use these link models to quantify the REC for realistic network topologies. We show that REC can be significant even when the proportion of premium traffic is small, a situation often considered benign for the over-provisioning alternative.