Bibliographic record
Abstract
The goal of traffic engineering is to achieve a target Quality of Service (QoS) while maximizing network utilization. While determining the QoS for end-to-end paths in a network under self-similar traffic models is difficult, end-to-end network performance analysis is still essential in providing QoS to networks such as Virtual Private Networks (VPN) and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks. The Fast Importance Sampling based Traffic Engineering (FISTE) approach proposed in this article is a prediction-based approach that maps the ingress traffic levels of a network to the QoS of end-to-end path(s) in the network. Because FISTE is a hybrid of simulation analysis and closed-form analysis, it can treat a complex network as a black box. When we combined Simulated Annealing (SA) with FISTE, the resulting approach can provide a traffic engineering solution so that multiple end-to-end QoS requirements are satisfied while the network resource utilization is maximized. FISTE originated from the concept of Importance Sampling (IS), and our approach differs from the previous Importance Sampling based approaches since this is the first time that IS is applied to multi-queue systems under Fractional Gaussian Noise (FGN) input and traffic engineering.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.215 | 0.113 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".