New approach for traffic characterisation in ATM networks

The authors introduce a new approach for traffic characterisation in ATM networks. This is based on the study of remote quantiles associated with stationary point processes as functions of the time interval. It is shown that useful information about the mean and variability of the process can be extracted from the asymptotic behaviour. Finally, the authors show the use of such time quantiles in the context of queue dimensioning which allows comparison of the blocking behaviour of traffic streams without detailed calculations