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Compartmental modelling, a technique that is widely used in areas such as bioscience, process control engineering, may serve as the basis for the performance evaluation of systems that are too complex to be handled by exact analytical/computational methods. With this technique, the dynamics of a system are described in terms of a set of differential or difference equations which permits the investigation of both the steady-state and transient behaviour of the system. In this paper, we describe how this technique can be used to model connection-oriented symmetric communication networks supporting multiple service classes, where each class is characterized by its bandwidth requirement, arrival and departure processes. We then demonstrate an application of this modelling technique to the steady-state analysis of a network and examine the accuracy of this modelling technique via simulations.
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Sivabalan, M., Mouftah, H.T., Takahara, G. (1997). On Compartmental Modelling of Multi-Service Communication Networks. In: Tantawy, A. (eds) High Performance Networking VII. HPN 1997. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35279-4_14
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