Network Traffic Characterization of TCP.

Feng, W.

Technical Information Center Oak Ridge Tennessee

关键词: Internet;    Computer networks;    Traffic;    Multiplexing;    Congestion;   

RP-ID  :  PB2001105671

学科分类：工程和技术（综合）

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来源: National Technical Reports Library

【 摘 要 】

Many research efforts in network traffic characterization conclude that network traffic is self-similar (i.e., fractal or bursty), and thus not amenable to the statistical-multiplexing techniques currently found in the Internet. In particular they claim that the heavy-tailed distributions of file size, packet interarrival, and transfer duration solely contribute to the self-similarity of aggregate network traffic. In contrast, we demonstrate that it is the TCP stack itself that induces much of the self-similar behavior even when aggregated application trafic should smooth out as more applications traffic are multiplexed.