IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
SIGMETRICS '97 Proceedings of the 1997 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Generating representative Web workloads for network and server performance evaluation
SIGMETRICS '98/PERFORMANCE '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM SIGMETRICS joint international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Open, Closed, and Mixed Networks of Queues with Different Classes of Customers
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
The Operational Analysis of Queueing Network Models
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Probability and statistics with reliability, queuing and computer science applications
Probability and statistics with reliability, queuing and computer science applications
A Performance Evaluation of Hyper Text Transfer Protocols
A Performance Evaluation of Hyper Text Transfer Protocols
A queueing model for HTTP traffic over IEEE 802.11 WLANs
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
A queueing model for HTTP traffic over IEEE 802.11 WLANs
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
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This paper studies the user-perceived performance of a shared packet wireless network for interactive data applications such as Web-browsing. We have defined a new measure: the Equivalent Circuit Rate (ECR) for a user in a shared access network is the dedicated access circuit rate that would be required by the user in order to have an equivalent user experience. The ECR measure is intuitive, useful and robust. We present a simple analytical model based on a closed queueing network with a finite population of interactive data users whose traffic can be modeled as ON/OFF traffic with feedback. The analytical results are consistent with our detailed simulations, where we study TCP-based Web traffic simulations for an EDGE (Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution) TDMA system using realistic workload models. Our study incorporates constant bit-rate channels, variable bit-rate channels, as well as mixed user groups with different channel conditions. We show that a shared wireless network is well characterized by simple parameters that depend only on mean statistics, for a broad range of scenarios. ECR is well approximated by R × (1 - U), where U is the utilization and R is the effective shared channel rate; this result holds even if different user groups have different rates or the channel rates are variable. These results will be useful in network dimensioning, admission control, and for defining quality of service targets for different user groups.