Abstract
In Internet traffic modeling, many authors presented models based on particular fractal shot noise representations. The inconvenience of these approaches is the multitude of assumptions and the lack of tools to check them. In this paper we propose a unified model based on a general Poisson shot noise representation for the cumulative input process (CIP). We present a procedure of approximation of this process; then we give a procedure for controlling the bandwidth of Internet providers. The approximation and control go via limit theorems for functionals of the CIP, namely, the supremum process, the right inverse, and the storage mapping.