Modeling Service Mixes in Access Links: Product Form and Oscillations

We consider an access link of a data network loaded with data flows generated by streaming and elastic services requested by fixed or mobile end users, and subjected to an admission control (AC) algorithm. For the performance analysis of such link we develop a new queuing model and we show that, with the considered AC, the queuing model admits a product form expression for the joint limiting probability distribution of the numbers of active services of the different types. Numerical results show unexpected oscillating behaviors for several performance metrics, and provide interesting insight into the link performance.