Analysis and modeling of WWW traffic characteristics with document caching for designing an internet access network
Masahiko Nabe, Masayuki Murata, Hideo Miyahara · Electronics and Communications in Japan (Part I Communications) · 1999
Document caching at proxy servers is widely adopted in today's Internet, since it is one of the most efficient ways to save the required capacity of the Internet access line. Hence, for efficient design of an Internet access network, it is essential to know how the characteristics of Internet traffic are affected by document caching. In this paper, we first investigate the effect of document caching on the World-Wide Web (WWW) traffic characteristics using the log data gathered at the proxy server. Based on this analytical result, we next build an M/G[log-normal]/1/PS queuing model to discuss a design methodology for an Internet access network. © 1999 Scripta Technica, Electron Comm Jpn Pt 1, 82(7): 25–34, 1999