2004

Conférence

Proceedings of the International Conference on Computing, Communcations and Control Technologies (CCCT’2004), Austin, Texas (TX)

Measurements from an Internet backbone link carrying TCP traf
f
ic towards different ADSL areas are analyzed in this paper. For
traffic analysis, we adopt a flow-based approach and the popular
mice/elephants dichotomy. The originality of the experimental
data reported in this paper, when compared with previous mea
surements from very high speed backbone links, is in that com
mercial traffic comprises a significant percentage due to peer-to
peer applications. This kind of traffic exhibits some remarkable
properties in terms of mice, elephants and bit rates, which are
thoroughly described in this paper. Mice due to p2p protocols and
mice due to classical Internet applications such as HTTP, ftp, etc.
are analyzed separately. It turns out that by adopting a suitable
level of aggregation, global traffic can be described by means of
usual tele-traffic models based on M/G/∞ queues with Weibul
lian service times. The global bit rate can be approximated by the
superposition of Gaussian processes perturbed by a white noise
and does not exhibit long range dependence.

@article{azzounacharacteristics,
  title={Characteristics of IP traffic in commercial wide area networks},
  author={Azzouna, Nadia Ben and Guillemin, Fabrice}
}