A fixed rate Poisson source emits packets during the on periods. A packet arrives at each slot during the on period with probability . The term IPP is somewhat misleading in the discrete time model, but maintained here for consistency. In the active state, a packet is generated independently from slot to slot with probability . We assume that a state transition takes place just prior to the end of a time slot and that a packet is generated at the beginning of a slot with probability if the new state is the active state.
Preliminary investigations show that the analytical results tie in well with our experimental data.
In particular, they bring out the probe compression phenomenon. 447-458, April 1990. In this paper we have directly simulated smaller networks, using their output packets as interfering traffic to the route R under study. This is because the traffic exhibits long term correlation, especially at high loads. The example in Figure 1 suggests that one key consideration is the burst length.