Traffic modeling with gamma mixtures and dynamical bandwidth provisioning

Author

Liu, Z. ; Almhana, J. ; Choulakian, V. ; McGorman, R.

Author_Institution

Moncton Univ., NB

fYear

2006

fDate

24-25 May 2006

Lastpage

130

Abstract

Dynamic bandwidth provisioning for data service is an efficient way to optimize network resource utilization. For the purpose of dynamical bandwidth provisioning, we need a model that can capture online the traffic characteristics and facilitate mathematical analysis. A mixture of gamma distributions can approximate any distribution with nonnegative support as closely as desired. It can not only characterize field data well, but also facilitate analytically tractable results far performance evaluation. This paper uses a Gamma mixture to model Internet traffic and proposes an online algorithm to fit the model to actual Internet traffic. The fitted model is applied to provision bandwidth dynamically, and many simulation and experimental results are also provided

Keywords

Internet; bandwidth allocation; gamma distribution; resource allocation; telecommunication traffic; Internet traffic model; dynamical bandwidth provisioning; gamma mixture distribution; network resource utilization; online algorithm; Approximation algorithms; Bandwidth; IP networks; Internet; Mathematical analysis; Mathematical model; Resource management; Stochastic processes; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; EM algorithm; Gamma Mixture distribution; Internet trajfic; stochastic approximation.;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communication Networks and Services Research Conference, 2006. CNSR 2006. Proceedings of the 4th Annual

Conference_Location

Moncton, NB

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2578-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CNSR.2006.54

Filename

1628107