An Analysis of the Characteristics of High-speed Network Traffic Based on Simulation
Gaogang Xie · Acta Simulata Systematica Sinica · 2004
The characteristics of network traffic are vital for network engineering and the study of network performance. Based on the theory of self-similarity, the evolution process of the self-similarity characteristics with the load increasing on backbone link is studied. The experiment shows that the self-similarity of backbone traffic retains when multiple self-similar branch traffics are multiplexed together. The degree of self-similarity of backbone traffic is smaller than the ones of each branch traffic, especially under high throughput. The changes of the sizes of sending window of TCP can cause the variation of the self-similarity.