A Practical Evaluation Method of Network Traffic Load for Capacity Planning

Communications network operators are supposed to provide high quality network service at low cost. Operators always monitor the amount of traffic and decide equipment investment when the amount exceeds a certain threshold considering trade-offs between link capacity and its utilization. To find the...

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Published inTesting Software and Systems pp. 263 - 268
Main Authors Kitahara, Takeshi, Nawata, Shuichi, Suzuki, Masaki, Fukumoto, Norihiro, Ano, Shigehiro
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham Springer International Publishing
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Subjects
Capacity planning
Queuing simulation
Traffic load testing
Traffic monitoring
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Summary:Communications network operators are supposed to provide high quality network service at low cost. Operators always monitor the amount of traffic and decide equipment investment when the amount exceeds a certain threshold considering trade-offs between link capacity and its utilization. To find the proper threshold efficiently, this paper proposes a practical threshold definition method which consists of fine grained data collection and computer simulation. We evaluate the proposed method using commercial traffic data-set. The results show the proper timing for the equipment investment.
ISBN:331925944X
9783319259444
ISSN:0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-25945-1_18