On the road towards the comprehension of the internet traffic behavior: simulation and analysis of an end-to-end connection with ns-2

Authors:
Foued Melakessou;Ulrich Sorger;Zdzislaw Suchanecki
Affiliations:
University of Luxembourg, rue Richard-Coudenhove Kalergi, Luxembourg;University of Luxembourg, rue Richard-Coudenhove Kalergi, Luxembourg;University of Luxembourg, rue Richard-Coudenhove Kalergi, Luxembourg
Venue:
SpringSim '07 Proceedings of the 2007 spring simulaiton multiconference - Volume 1
Year:
2007

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Abstract

This contribution is attempting to address the problem of understanding how different aspects of networks - physical topology and routes on that topology - along with packet arrival models lead to congestion and other observed network characteristics as its fractal and periodic behavior. We reveal topology and routing effects on data transmissions between two routers linked by a connection path in a well-defined network environment. Our statistical approach is based on log-normal distributions. We show that the fractal behavior of a network node traffic can be viewed as a consequence of the topology and routing effects. This work is based on random simulations performed by the network simulator ns-2. We have shown that the longer the connection path, the more log-normal is the inter-arrival time distribution at the destination node. Moreover a spectrum analysis has been performed in order to emphasize the traffic periodic behavior rising from the most used transfer protocol TCP/Reno.