Analysis of Non-Gaussian Nature of Network Traffic and its Implication on Network Performance
Networking and Internet Architecture
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We analyzed the non-Gaussian nature of network traffic using some Internet traffic data. We found that (1) the non-Gaussian nature degrades network performance, (2) it is caused by `greedy flows' that exist with non-negligible probability, and (3) a large majority of `greedy flows' are TCP flows having relatively small hop counts, which correspond to small round-trip times. We conclude that in a network hat has greedy flows with non-negligible probability, a traffic controlling scheme or bandwidth design that considers non-Gaussian nature is essential.
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@article{arxiv.cs/0209004,
title = {Analysis of Non-Gaussian Nature of Network Traffic and its Implication on Network Performance},
author = {Tatsuya Mori and Ryoichi Kawahara and Shozo Naito},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0209004},
year = {2007}
}
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11 pages, 12 figures