Packet dropping characteristics in a queue with autocorrelated arrivals

Abstract

This paper provides a detailed description of the packet dropping process connected with the buffer overflows in a network node. Namely, we show the formulas for the most important loss characteristics, both in the transient and the stationary regime and then illustrate them via numericalexamples. In order to make it possible to obtain the droppingcharacteristics for strongly autocorrelated arrivals, the Markovmodulated Poisson process is used as a traffic model.