Matteo Olivi - 2023-10-10

Hello,
I'd like to model a microservices-based app with bursty traffic via a layered queuing network model.

To that end, I want to configure the inter arrival times for some of the model Entries' via the Pareto distribution. But I can't understand how to do that. I see that the Entry class only has an open arrival rate property, which makes me suspect only Poisson is supported.

Is what I'm asking for (Pareto inter arrival times for LQN model) supported? If not, how complicated is it to add support for that? If necessary, I have the time to do that, under some guidance.

I see that there's a past commit that added what I'm asking for, but then that functionality was removed by this subsequent commit. Why was it removed? Are there ways to obtain the same behavior that was removed in a different way?

Sorry if the question isn't clear or the answer should be obvious, I'm new to queuing models/performance modeling in general.

Thanks,
Matteo.