The Dynamics of Internet Traffic: Self-Similarity, Self-Organization, and Complex Phenomena
Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
2011-12-08 v4 Networking and Internet Architecture
Chaotic Dynamics
Abstract
The Internet is the most complex system ever created in human history. Therefore, its dynamics and traffic unsurprisingly take on a rich variety of complex dynamics, self-organization, and other phenomena that have been researched for years. This paper is a review of the complex dynamics of Internet traffic. Departing from normal treatises, we will take a view from both the network engineering and physics perspectives showing the strengths and weaknesses as well as insights of both. In addition, many less covered phenomena such as traffic oscillations, large-scale effects of worm traffic, and comparisons of the Internet and biological models will be covered.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0807.3374,
title = {The Dynamics of Internet Traffic: Self-Similarity, Self-Organization, and Complex Phenomena},
author = {Reginald D. Smith},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.3374},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
63 pages, 7 figures, 7 tables, submitted to Advances in Complex Systems