Performance Evaluation of Multi-rate Streaming Traffic by Quasi-Stationary Modelling

  • Authors:
  • Philippe Olivier

  • Affiliations:
  • Orange Labs, CORE/TPN Laboratory, France Telecom, Issy-les-Moulineaux Cedex 9, France 92794

  • Venue:
  • NET-COOP '09 Proceedings of the 3rd Euro-NF Conference on Network Control and Optimization
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

A Quasi-Stationary approach to evaluate streaming traffic performance was recently proposed, which combines in a simple way the traffic variations at flow and packet time-scales. The present paper elaborates on it, by specifically focusing on the multi-class/multi-rate aspects of the model. A first original contribution is the theoretical description of flow peak rates in terms of a continuous distribution. Then, a set of simulations is reported which shows in some simple cases, e.g., a multiplex of constant bit rate flow classes, the suitability and efficiency of the approach. Finally, a preliminary trace-driven simulation experiment, although not fully satisfactory, shows some need for explicitly taking into account the flow peak rates in performance evaluation.