Abstract:
The effective bandwidths (EB) of a communication system are considered. The EB guarantees that the stationary
workload overflow/loss probability to exceed athreshold islimited by a(small)quantity. Itis shownhow tocalculate
EB in a fluid queue fed by an input with the independent increments. Then, a fluid system with regenerative
input is considered. Using heuristic arguments, an approximation of the limiting logarithmic exponential moment
generating function of the input was deduced. Numerical simulations show a satisfactory accuracy of the
approximation applied to a few systems with regenerative input.