On the self-similar nature of Ethernet traffic (extended version)
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Wide area traffic: the failure of Poisson modeling
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
SIGCOMM '95 Proceedings of the conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
On the relevance of long-range dependence in network traffic
Conference proceedings on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Self-similarity in World Wide Web traffic: evidence and possible causes
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
SIGMETRICS '98/PERFORMANCE '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM SIGMETRICS joint international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
The changing nature of network traffic: scaling phenomena
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Data networks as cascades: investigating the multifractal nature of Internet WAN traffic
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM '98 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Dynamics of IP traffic: a study of the role of variability and the impact of control
Proceedings of the conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
On the nonstationarity of Internet traffic
Proceedings of the 2001 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Connection-level analysis and modeling of network traffic
IMW '01 Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Internet Measurement
A non-instrusive, wavelet-based approach to detecting network performance problems
IMW '01 Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Internet Measurement
Self-Similar Network Traffic and Performance Evaluation
Self-Similar Network Traffic and Performance Evaluation
Passive estimation of TCP round-trip times
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
A detailed mathematical study of several aspects of the internet
A detailed mathematical study of several aspects of the internet
Cluster processes: a natural language for network traffic
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
Wavelet analysis of long-range-dependent traffic
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
A multifractal wavelet model with application to network traffic
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Packet-level traffic measurements from the Sprint IP backbone
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
An adaptive-predictive architecture for video streaming servers
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
A longitudinal study of small-time scaling behavior of internet traffic
NETWORKING'10 Proceedings of the 9th IFIP TC 6 international conference on Networking
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We perform an extensive wavelet analysis of Internet backbone traffic traces to observe and understand the causes of small-time scaling phenomena present in them. We observe that for a majority of the traces, the second-order scaling exponents at small time scales (1-100ms) are fairly close to 0.5, indicating that traffic fluctuations at these time scales are nearly uncorrelated. Some traces, however, do exhibit moderately large scaling exponents (~0.7) at small time scales. In addition, the traces manifest mostly monofractal behaviors at small time scales. To identify the network causes of the observed scaling behavior, we analyze the flow composition of the traffic along two dimensions-flow byte contribution and flow density. Our study points to the dense flows (i.e., flows with densely clustered packets) as the correlation-causing factor in small time scales, and reveals that the traffic composition in terms of proportions of dense vs. sparse flows plays a major role in influencing the small-time scalings of aggregate traffic. Since queuing inside routers is influenced by traffic fluctuations at small time-scales, our observations and results have important implications for networking modeling, service provisioning and traffic engineering.