Analysis of a burstiness curve for FBM traffic and token bucket shaping algorithm

Abstract

The paper presents a burstiness curve - a trade- off between Token Bucket descriptors - derived for a FBM traffic model using an envelope analysis. The burstiness curve is defined by traffic parameters (mean, variance, and Hurst parameter) and the considered Token Bucket packet drop probability. The Obtained results allow for more control to be imposed on Token Bucket parameters, when shaping the traffic of a particular service on the network.