Time Series Based Simulation Architecture

In this paper a new time series based simulation architecture is proposed. Nowadays as quality of service (QoS) issues (especially end-to-end issues) become more and more important, broadband inter-domain simulation scenarios are becoming hot topics. However, simulating backbone network traffic in a traditional packet based simulator is ineffective. Instead of dealing with individual packets, fluid flow simulators handle traffic flows that can dramatically lower the number of events in the simulator. Our proposed simulator architecture operates on an even higher level, on aggregate level. This simulator is especially designed to investigate interdomain scenarios. The proposed architecture does not substitute but complement the classical ones.