Accurate and fast replication on the generation of fractal network traffic using alternative probablity models

Stenio Fernandes; Carlos Kamienski; Djamel Sadok

doi:10.1117/12.509375

8 August 2003 Accurate and fast replication on the generation of fractal network traffic using alternative probability models

Stenio Fernandes, Carlos Kamienski, Djamel Sadok

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Proceedings Volume 5244, Performance and Control of Next-Generation Communications Networks; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.509375
Event: ITCom 2003, 2003, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Synthetic self-similar traffic in computer networks simulation is of imperative significance for the capturing and reproducing of actual Internet data traffic behavior. A universally used procedure for generating self-similar traffic is achieved by aggregating On/Off sources where the active (On) and idle (Off) periods exhibit heavy tailed distributions. This work analyzes the balance between accuracy and computational efficiency in generating self-similar traffic and presents important results that can be useful to parameterize existing heavy tailed distributions such as Pareto, Weibull and Lognormal in a simulation analysis. Our results were obtained through the simulation of various scenarios and were evaluated by estimating the Hurst (H) parameter, which measures the self-similarity level, using several methods.

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Stenio Fernandes, Carlos Kamienski, and Djamel Sadok "Accurate and fast replication on the generation of fractal network traffic using alternative probability models", Proc. SPIE 5244, Performance and Control of Next-Generation Communications Networks, (8 August 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.509375

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