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Traffic characterization of the NSFNET national backbone

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SIGMETRICS '90: Proceedings of the 1990 ACM SIGMETRICS conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems

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https://doi.org/10.1145/98457.98774

Published: 01 April 1990 Publication History

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Traditionally, models of packet arrival in communication networks have assumed either Poisson or compound Poisson arrival patterns. A study of a token ring local area network (LAN) at MIT [5] found that packet arrival followed neither of these models. Instead, traffic followed a more general model dubbed the “packet train,” which describes network traffic as a collection of packet streams traveling between pairs of nodes. A packet train consists of a number of packets travelling between a particular node pair.

This study examines the existence of packet trains on NSFNET, a high speed national backbone network. Train characteristics on NSFNET are not as striking as those found on the MIT local network; however, certain protocols exhibit quite strong train behavior given the great number of hosts communicating through the backbone.

Descriptions of the packet train model can be found in [3] and [5].

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Traditionally, models of packet arrival in communication networks have assumed either Poisson or compound Poisson arrival patterns. A study of a token ring local area network (LAN) at MIT [5] found that packet arrival followed neither of these models. ...

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SIGMETRICS '90: Proceedings of the 1990 ACM SIGMETRICS conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems

April 1990

273 pages

ISBN:0897913590

DOI:10.1145/98457

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ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review Volume 18, Issue 1
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