Assignment 3: Elastic and Inelastic Traffic



Assignment 3: Elastic and Inelastic Traffic

Introduction

Traffic can be described in terms of the characteristics of different objects such as packages, bursty flows, sessions and connections, depending on the time scale and relevant statistical variations. For dimensional models, it is more convenient to characterize the traffic flows at the intermediate level, where a flow is defined as a unidirectional sequence of packets from a particular source, for example through the same addresses and source port numbers and target. In this context, it is useful to distinguish between elastic flows that packets corresponding to a digital document that does not require real time transmission and non-elastic flows in which packets need to be transmitted in real time as when transporting audio signals and video (Hunt et.al, 2002).

Elastic And Inelastic Traffic

To start talking about elastic and inelastic traffic, we must first talk about modeling data traffic on telecommunications networks. This concept involves a series of three factors that impact the entire communications network. These factors are user number, network resources and performance of the network. The interaction of these factors defines the traffic or the traffic study, and the techniques that are capable of sizing the network resources for certain users who benefit from the increased performance of the communication network.

The main objective is to model a type of elastic and inelastic traffic, and to make a comparison of its impact on the IP network congestion.

Equal Separation By Geography

In many cases, the collision of atoms, molecules and elementary particles is governed by the laws of elastic collision. The elastic traffic flows are created by the transfer of a file, a message, an object (or document) in an HTML page, etc. At the highest level, we can try to define the concept of sessions in order to bring ...