Title : 
Heterogeneous bursty traffic dispersion over multiple server clusters
         
        
            Author : 
Elhanany, Itamar ; Kahane, Michael
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Tennessee Univ., Knoxville, TN, USA
         
        
        
        
        
            fDate : 
3/1/2005 12:00:00 AM
         
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
This letter presents performance analysis of multiple subnets, each representing a cluster of computing server nodes, that are introduced with non-uniformly distributed bursty packet arrivals. In particular, we study the case of a multi-state Markov-modulated arrival process, heterogeneously dispersed among designated queues. Cluster processing is modeled by employing a batch service discipline. The probability generating functions of the interarrival times distributions are utilized to derive closed-form expressions for each of the queue size distributions.
         
        
            Keywords : 
Markov processes; computer network management; network servers; packet switching; queueing theory; telecommunication congestion control; telecommunication traffic; workstation clusters; batch service discipline; closed-form expressions; cluster processing model; computing server nodes; designated queues; heterogeneous bursty traffic dispersion; heterogeneously dispersed arrival; interarrival times distributions; multi-state Markov-modulated arrival process; multiple server clusters; multiple subnets; nonuniformly distributed bursty packet arrivals; performance analysis; probability generating functions; queue size distributions; traffic modeling; Closed-form solution; Computer networks; Distributed computing; Network servers; Network topology; Performance analysis; Power engineering and energy; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; Wide area networks;
         
        
        
            Journal_Title : 
Communications Letters, IEEE
         
        
        
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/LCOMM.2005.03026