Possibilities of Mmpp Processes for Bursty Traffic Analysis

Modern telecommunication networks are designed to support converged traffic including voice, data and video. [1] One major feature of these networks is that the input traffic is usually highly bursty.[2] Also, because these networks operate in a packet switching mode, there is usually a strong correlation between packet arrivals. Thus, for these networks the traditional Poisson traffic model cannot be applied because the presence of correlation between traffic arrivals violates the independence assumption associated with the Poisson processes. In this paper we consider the opportunities using of MMPP processes for the modelling of such traffic.