1st International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques for Communications, Networks and Systems

Research Article

Integration of Streaming and Elastic Traffic: A Fixed Point Approach

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2008.2931,
        author={Hassan Hassan and O Brun and Jean-Marie GARCIA and David Gauchard},
        title={Integration of Streaming and Elastic Traffic: A Fixed Point Approach},
        proceedings={1st International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques for Communications, Networks and Systems},
        publisher={ICST},
        proceedings_a={SIMUTOOLS},
        year={2010},
        month={5},
        keywords={Fixed point streaming traffic elastic traffic quality of service.},
        doi={10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2008.2931}
    }
    
  • Hassan Hassan
    O Brun
    Jean-Marie GARCIA
    David Gauchard
    Year: 2010
    Integration of Streaming and Elastic Traffic: A Fixed Point Approach
    SIMUTOOLS
    ICST
    DOI: 10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2008.2931
Hassan Hassan1,*, O Brun1,*, Jean-Marie GARCIA2,*, David Gauchard2,*
  • 1: LAAS-CNRS University of Toulouse 7 av du colonel ROCHE, 31077 Toulouse, France
  • 2: QoS Design 6 av Marcel DORET, 31500 Toulouse, France
*Contact email: hhassan@laas.fr, brun@laas.fr, jmgarcia@qosdesign.com, dgauchard@qosdesign.com

Abstract

We present a fixed point approach to evaluate the quality of service of streaming traffic multiplexed with elastic traffic in multi-service networks. First, we handle elastic traffic and streaming traffic separately, and then we derive a general fixed point formulation integrating both types of traffic in best effort networks. Then, we extend the application of this formulation to multi-service networks where priorities and bandwidth sharing schemes can be applied to different flows. Our approach is mainly oriented towards very large scale networks where traditional simulation techniques are not scalable, and where a large number of flows have to be evaluated in reasonable time. We assess the accuracy of our approach by means of event-driven simulations.