%0 Conference Proceedings %T A Practical Evaluation Method of Network Traffic Load for Capacity Planning %+ KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc. [Saitama] %A Kitahara, Takeshi %A Nawata, Shuichi %A Suzuki, Masaki %A Fukumoto, Norihiro %A Ano, Shigehiro %Z Part 6: Short Papers %< avec comité de lecture %( Lecture Notes in Computer Science %B 27th IFIP International Conference on Testing Software and Systems (ICTSS) %C Sharjah and Dubai, United Arab Emirates %Y Khaled El-Fakih %Y Gerassimos Barlas %Y Nina Yevtushenko %3 Testing Software and Systems %V LNCS-9447 %P 263-268 %8 2015-11-23 %D 2015 %R 10.1007/978-3-319-25945-1_18 %K Capacity planning %K Traffic monitoring %K Traffic load testing %K Queuing simulation %Z Computer Science [cs] %Z Computer Science [cs]/Networking and Internet Architecture [cs.NI]Conference papers %X Communications network operators are supposed to provide high quality network service at low cost. Operators always monitor the amount of traffic and decide equipment investment when the amount exceeds a certain threshold considering trade-offs between link capacity and its utilization. To find the proper threshold efficiently, this paper proposes a practical threshold definition method which consists of fine grained data collection and computer simulation. We evaluate the proposed method using commercial traffic data-set. The results show the proper timing for the equipment investment. %G English %Z TC 6 %Z WG 6.1 %2 https://inria.hal.science/hal-01470153/document %2 https://inria.hal.science/hal-01470153/file/385214_1_En_18_Chapter.pdf %L hal-01470153 %U https://inria.hal.science/hal-01470153 %~ IFIP-LNCS %~ IFIP %~ IFIP-TC %~ IFIP-WG %~ IFIP-TC6 %~ IFIP-WG6-1 %~ IFIP-ICTSS %~ IFIP-LNCS-9447