Offline and online network traffic characterization

  • Authors:
  • Su Zhang;Mary K. Vernon

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Wisconsin Madison, Computer Science Department, St. Madison;University of Wisconsin Madison, Computer Science Department, St. Madison

  • Venue:
  • NETWORKING'07 Proceedings of the 6th international IFIP-TC6 conference on Ad Hoc and sensor networks, wireless networks, next generation internet
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

This paper investigates a new technique called Bayesian-Block-Analysis (BBA) for analyzing the time varying rate of events. The first goal is to evaluate the accuracy of BBA in identifying the rate changes in synthetic traces that have a given interevent times distribution, and known rate change points. We find that BBA is highly accurate on traces with exponential interevent times and known rate changes, and reasonably accurate with more heavier-tailed interevent times. The second goal is to apply BBA to actual network event traces. And for request arrivals or loss rate traces, BBA identifies significant stationary-rate periods which are qualitatively consistent with previous results obtained with less efficient or less accurate techniques. For packet arrivals to gateways, BBA identifies stationary rate periods that are corroborated by binning the data on a new timescale. Finally, we also show BB-online rate estimation is accurate for synthetic as well as actual system traces.