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significant implications for the future of IP traffic characterization. We find that the slowly decaying autocorrelation phenomenon is mostly caused by flows of correlated packets and the existence of some periodic network management traffic. On the control time scale, we propose to identify the sources

The Internet is rapidly growing in number of users, traffic levels, and topological complexity. At the same time it is increasingly driven by economic competition. These developments render the characterization of network usage and workloads more difficult, and yet more critical. Few recent

This paper presents a traffic characterization study of the popular video sharing service, YouTube. Over a three month period we observed almost 25 million transactions between users on an edge network and YouTube, including more than 600,000 video downloads. We also monitored the globally popular

is impractical. This paper presents a study of the performance of various methods of sampling in answering questions related to wide area network traffic characterization. Using a packet trace from a network environment that aggregates traffic from a large number of sources, we simulate various sampling

This paper presents and characterizes the Princeton Application Repository for Shared-Memory Computers (PARSEC), a benchmark suite for studies of Chip-Multiprocessors (CMPs). Previous available benchmarks for multiprocessors have focused on high-performance computing applications and used a limited

The SPLASH-2 suite of parallel applications has recently been released to facilitate the study of centralized and distributed shared-address-space multiprocessors. In this context, this paper has two goals. One is to quantitatively characterize the SPLASH-2 programs in terms of fundamental

This report is a brief survey of schemes used for characterization of application traffic. We discuss the different kinds of applications, and their QoS requirements. Measurement-based, Statistical model-based and Deterministic model-based schemes are used to characterize traffic, and we elucidate

Abstract: The capacity of backbone networks keeps increasing to cope with the increasing user traffic demands. The key user of such huge transport capacity is the IP protocol, which is nowadays seen as the universal network protocol for any type of user application. A more flexible exploitation

Workstations interconnected by high speed LANs are a tempting platform for parallel computing. Such LANs will likely support quality of service guarantees that could be used by parallel programs. QOS schemes require applications to characterize their traffic. To determine the characteristics