Where to Go Next

In this chapter we introduced the Traffic Modeling module of the Tangram-II tool. This module offers several possibilities to the user, such as: (a) use statistics from real traces; (b) choose from different traffic models (which includes Markovian, FBM and FARIMA models); (c) calculate descriptors from the models to be able to match parameters and/or verify statistical differences from the model to the measured data; (d) create a ``complete'' performance model which includes the traffic model and the resources under study; (e) solve it via simulation or analysis, and (f) conduct experiments with traffic generators over a laboratory environment. We also encourage the user to go through the Traffic Generation tool, which will be described in the next chapter.