A MULTISERVICE USER DESCRIPTIVE TRAFFIC SOURCE MODEL

Selecting appropriate traffic source models is an important issue, sin ce it is closely related to the successful design and efficient perfor mance of the networks to be built in the future. The source model pres ented in this paper provides a simple way for characterizing the behav ior of a telecommunication user recognizing the multilevel discipline of a telecommunication session, The traffic model is general enough to fit a variety of different services by appropriately varying the valu es of the parameters defining it, but also it is simple enough because it is described by a small number of parameters and the defining para meters make a good intuitive sense by being closely related to actual physical quantities.