Network calculus provides new tools for performance analysis of networks, but analyzing networks with complex topologies is a challenging research issue using statistical network calculus. A service model is proposed ...Network calculus provides new tools for performance analysis of networks, but analyzing networks with complex topologies is a challenging research issue using statistical network calculus. A service model is proposed to characterize a service process of network with complex topologies. To obtain closed-form expression of statistical end-to-end performance bounds for a wide range of traffic source models, the traffic model and service model are expanded according to error function. Based on the proposed models, the explicit end-to-end delay bound of Fractional Brownian Motion（FBM） traffic is derived, the factors that affect the delay bound are analyzed, and a comparison between theoretical and simulation results is performed. The results illustrate that the proposed models not only fit the network behaviors well, but also facilitate the network performance analysis.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation Major Research Plan of China （No. 90718003）, the National Natural Science Foundation of China （No. 60973027）, and the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China （No. 2007AA01Z401 ）.
文摘Network calculus provides new tools for performance analysis of networks, but analyzing networks with complex topologies is a challenging research issue using statistical network calculus. A service model is proposed to characterize a service process of network with complex topologies. To obtain closed-form expression of statistical end-to-end performance bounds for a wide range of traffic source models, the traffic model and service model are expanded according to error function. Based on the proposed models, the explicit end-to-end delay bound of Fractional Brownian Motion（FBM） traffic is derived, the factors that affect the delay bound are analyzed, and a comparison between theoretical and simulation results is performed. The results illustrate that the proposed models not only fit the network behaviors well, but also facilitate the network performance analysis.
