An Efficient Approach for Generalized Load Balancing in Multipath Packet Switched Networks
G. G. Md. Nawaz Ali · International journal of Computer Networks & Communications · 2010
In this paper, we present an evaluation of the Ethernet traffic for host and attendees of the popular opensource web conferencing system DimDim.While traditional Internet-centric approaches such as the MBONE have been used over the past decades, current trends for web-based conference systems make exclusive use of application-layer multicast.To allow for network dimensioning and QoS provisioning, an understanding of the underlying traffic characteristics is required.We find in our exemplary evaluations that the host of a web conference session produces a large amount of Ethernet traffic, largely due to the required control of the conference session, that is heavily-tailed distributed and exhibits additionally long-range dependence.For different groups of activities within a web conference session, we find distinctive characteristics of the generated traffic.