Network dimensioning and performance of multiservice, multirateloss networks with dynamic routing

We address a multiservice, multirate loss network environment with dynamic routing. In this setting, we consider multiple traffic load periods (multihour) during the day, and by observing network dynamics, we present a network dimensioning model that consists of two steps: a bandwidth estimation step, followed by a multicommodity flow model for multiple services and traffic loads. For network operations, we discuss a probabilistic admission control policy and three multiservice routing schemes. We have used a ten-node network with multiple asymmetric traffic data sets (partially extracted from an actual network) for our study. It was found that the capacity obtained using the analytic network dimensioning model provides a good estimate of network capacity required for meeting the grade-of-service goal for each service type in each traffic load period; this observation is based on a simulated network environment that uses the proposed admission control and the dynamic routing schemes. Our observation suggests that it may not be not necessary for the dimensioning model to explicitly incorporate an admission control policy, but admission control is needed for network operation to provide desirable grade-of-service