The talk
is a review of some results on a discrete-time finite-buffer
queueing system,
which models a communication network multiplexer fed by
self-similar packet traffic.
The review includes also some new results
which have not been published.
First, the definitions of second-order
self-similar processes are given.
Then a queueing model is introduced.
It has
a finite buffer, a number of servers with unit
service time, and input
traffic which is an aggregation of independent
source-active periods having
Pareto-distributed lengths
and arriving as Poisson batches. A source
generates a Bernoulli sequence of packets.
Asymptotic bounds for the
buffer-overflow and packet-loss probabilities are given. The bounds show a
true asymptotic behaviour of the probabilities
in some cases. The bounds
decay algebraically with buffer-size growth
and exponentially with excess
of channel capacity over traffic rate.