Title
Copula analysis for statistical network calculus
Abstract
The tightness of stochastic performance bounds has been a lingering issue in the theory and practical applications of stochastic network calculus (SNC). More often than not, inappropriate stochastic traffic arrival models and/or service models lead to loose stochastic bounds. In practice, loose bounds occur due to inaccurate a-prior assumption on traffic arrivals and/or the obliviousness to possible correlation between arrivals. To alleviate this problem, this paper uses copula analysis to capture the correlation in traffic flows and introduces a statistical method to infer traffic arrival models. Using copula theory, we show the range of performance bounds that SNC can achieve. With concrete numerical examples and real-world experiments, it is demonstrated that copula analysis offers a new opportunity for extending SNC research and augmenting its impact in practice.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/INFOCOM.2015.7218532
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications
Keywords
Field
DocType
Network Calculus, Copulas Analysis
Mathematical optimization,Multivariable calculus,Copula (linguistics),Computer science,Network calculus,Stochastic modelling,Copula theory
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0743-166X
5
0.41
References 
Authors
9
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fang Dong151.09
Kui Wu2305.06
S. Venkatesh3537.11