Daniel D.

Aggregate traffic in high speed networks is characterized by “burst within burst” structure over a wide range of time scales, heavy tailed inter-arrival time densities, self-similarity and long range dependence. These properties are followed by a degradation of quality of service in aggregate traffic. A high self-similarity grade will eventually fill up the network equipments memory and queues no matter how large they are designed. This paper compares the effect of traffic shaping and traffic policing on ag