On the Relationship Between File Sizes, Transport Protocols, and Self-Similar Network Traffic (1996)
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| Venue: | In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols |
| Citations: | 193 - 21 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Park96onthe,
author = {Kihong Park},
title = {On the Relationship Between File Sizes, Transport Protocols, and Self-Similar Network Traffic},
booktitle = {In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols},
year = {1996},
pages = {171--180}
}
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Abstract
Recent measurements of local-area and wide-area traffic have shown that network traffic exhibits variability at a wide range of scales. In this paper, we examine a mechanism that gives rise to self-similar network traffic and present some of its performance implications. The mechanism we study is the transfer of files or messages whose size is drawn from a heavy-tailed distribution. First, we show that in a “realistic ” client/server network environment—i.e., one with bounded resources and coupling among traffic sources competing for resources—the degree to which file sizes are heavy-tailed can directly determine the degree of traffic self-similarity at the link level. We show that this causal relationship is robust with respect to changes in network resources (bottleneck bandwidth and
