@techreport{TR-IC-97-02,
  number = {IC-97-02},
  author = {Fonseca, Nelson L. S. and Silvester, John A.},
  title = {Approximate Models for the Output Process of an {ATM} Multiplexer with Markov Modulated Input},
  month = {January},
  year = {1997}, 
  institution = {Institute of Computing, University of Campinas},
  note = {In English, 34 pages.
    \par\selectlanguage{english}\textbf{Abstract}
      The traffic in the future Broadband Integrated Digital Networks
      will be highly correlated and neglecting its correlations leads
      to a dramatic underestimation of its performance.  In order to
      completly specify a queueing network framework we need to define
      the stochastic processes resulting from the departure of a queue
      splitting and merging. In this paper we introduce a procedure
      for modeling the output process of a multiplexer with Markov
      modulated input and extend this procedure to model ATM
      multiplexers with selective discard mechanism. Moreover we show
      frameworks for queueing networks with Markov modulated flows
      which can be used to estimate end-to-end performance in ATM
      networks.
  }
}