D. Medhi and S. Guptan, ``Network Dimensioning and Performance of Multi-Service, Multi-Rate Loss Networks with Dynamic Routing," IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking, Vol. 5, No. 6, pp. 944-957, December 1997.

Abstract
In this paper, we address a multi-service, multi-rate loss network environment with dynamic routing. In this setting, we consider multiple traffic load periods (multi-hour) during the day, and by observing network dynamics, we present a network dimensioning model that consists of two-steps: a bandwidth estimation estimation step followed by a multi-commodity flow model for multiple services and traffic loads. For network operations, we discuss a probabilistic admission control policy and three multi-service routing schemes. We have used a 10-node network with multiple asymmetric traffic data sets (partially extracted from an actual network) for our study. It was found that the capacity obtained using the analytic network dimensioning model provides a good estimate of network capacity required for meeting the grade-of-service goal for each service type in each traffic load period; this observation is based on a simulated network environment that uses the proposed admission control and the dynamic routing schemes. Our observation suggests that it may not be not necessary for the dimensioning model to explicitly incorporate admission control policy, but admission control is needed for network operation to provide desirable grade-of-service.

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