@article{Addie1998Broadband,
author = {R. G. Addie and M. Zukerman and T. D. Neame},
title = {Broadband traffic modeling: simple solutions to hard
problems},
journal = {IEEE Communication Magazine},
volume = {36},
number = {8},
pages = {88-95},
month = {Aug.},
year = {1998},
abstract = {A much clearer picture of the progress toward an
integrated high-speed multiservice network is now emerging. Such networks were
anticipated over 20 years ago, at a time when packet switching was just another
way to transmit data. Now the technology is so mature that media barons are
organizing their investments in order to take advantage of its profitability.
Many of the technical problems are now solved, and the fundamental protocols
required for these networks are sufficiently well-defined to support a rapidly
expanding industry. However, consensus on how to talk about the statistics of
the data transmitted around these networks has not been readily forthcoming.
Nevertheless, there now exists a family of models with sufficient richness to
describe real traffic fairly well, which can be parameterized conveniently, and
which degenerates to a readily analyzable Gaussian model in the situation of
very large networks. This analysis leads to important architectural conclusions
which accord with common sense, in particular the conclusion that integrated
networks of the future should be able to provide better and better service with
efficiency tending toward perfection. This is a rather happy conclusion which
thoroughly confirms the current rapid drive toward an all-encompassing
integrated multiservice network. Rather than the increase in traffic and
diversity of service types leading to greater and greater complexity, it seems
that the flow of traffic in our networks may become steadily more manageable.}
}