Interactive Behaviour Between the Dynamic Arrival Process of Complex Traffic Source and a Bottleneck Queue

Abstract

This paper proposes a discrete-time heterogeneous model to represent the interaction between the dynamic arrival process of multiple TCP sources and a bottleneck queue. It utilises a novel time-variant calculation approach for transient queueing models, which modifies the conventional steady-state method by no longer requiring the equilibrium assumption. The main contributions are: (1) The limitation of the conventional queueing method is analysed and the benefits of the proposed modification is demonstrated; (2) The proposed dynamic arrival process of multiple sources is illustrated, which interacts with the queueing process and statistically responds to the positive and negative congestion feedback; (3) The fidelity of the proposed model is extensively validated by the closely matched results from MATLAB numerical solutions and NS-2 discrete-event simulation experiments.