Analysis of the packet formation process in packet-switched networks
Abstract
Two new queueing system models for the packet formation process in packet-switched telecommunication networks are developed, and their applications in process stability, performance analysis, and optimization studies are illustrated. The first, an M/M/1 queueing system characterization of the process, is a highly aggregated model which is useful for preliminary studies. The second, a marked extension of an earlier M/G/1 model, permits one to investigate stability, performance characteristics, and design of the packet formation process in terms of the details of processor architecture, and hardware and software implementations with processor structure and as many parameters as desired as variables. The two new models together with the earlier M/G/1 characterization span the spectrum of modeling complexity for the packet formation process from basic to advanced.
- Publication:
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IN: Annual Allerton Conference on Communication
- Pub Date:
- 1982
- Bibcode:
- 1982ccc..proc..413M
- Keywords:
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- Communication Networks;
- Computerized Simulation;
- Network Control;
- Packet Switching;
- Performance Prediction;
- Queueing Theory;
- Architecture (Computers);
- Control Stability;
- Mathematical Models;
- Message Processing;
- Optimal Control;
- Parallel Processing (Computers);
- Systems Stability;
- Time Lag;
- Communications and Radar