@inproceedings{319b378c07fc43b1b3854b2f1e3c3255,
title = "Evaluation of ''user-oriented'' and ''black-box'' traffic models for link provisioning",
abstract = "To offer users a sufficient performance level, network links should be properly provisioned. The required bandwidth capacity may be determined through the use of a model of the real network traffic. In this paper, we study the use of two classes of traffic models: (i) {\textquoteleft}user-oriented models{\textquoteright}, which capture the behavior of individual flows, and (ii) {\textquoteleft}black-box models{\textquoteright}, which statistically describe the superposition of many users (and do not distinguish between individual flows). User-oriented models have the advantage that they allow for sensitivity analysis: the impact of a change in the user parameters (access rate, flow-size distribution) can be assessed. In general, however, our measurements indicated that blackbox models are easier to estimate, and yield accurate provisioning guidelines.",
keywords = "METIS-224890, EWI-7071, IR-52915",
author = "{van de Meent}, R. and M.R.H. Mandjes",
year = "2005",
month = apr,
doi = "10.1109/NGI.2005.1431691",
language = "Undefined",
isbn = "0-7803-8900-X",
series = "IEEE Conference Proceedings",
publisher = "IEEE",
pages = "380--387",
booktitle = "1st EuroNGI Conference on Next Generation Internet Networks Traffic Engineering, IEEE",
address = "United States",
note = "1st EuroNGI Conference on Next Generation Internet Networks Traffice Engineering ; Conference date: 18-04-2005 Through 20-04-2005",
}