Source traffic characterization for thin client based office applications

Authors:
Barbara Emmert;Andreas Binzenhöfer;Daniel Schlosser;Markus Weiß
Affiliations:
University of Würzburg, Institute of Computer Science, Würzburg, Germany;University of Würzburg, Institute of Computer Science, Würzburg, Germany;University of Würzburg, Institute of Computer Science, Würzburg, Germany;University of Würzburg, Institute of Computer Science, Würzburg, Germany
Venue:
EUNICE'07 Proceedings of the 13th open European summer school and IFIP TC6.6 conference on Dependable and adaptable networks and services
Year:
2007

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Abstract

A thin client is a small network computer which is used as a remote screen visualizing the output of software applications running on a central server. To provide a seamless service to thin client users the network connection between the client and the server must be dimensioned properly. In this paper we therefore characterize the traffic generated by different types of thin client users when working with popular office applications like Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint. We analyze the traffic patterns measured in our testbed environment and thus provide a basis for subsequent research studies as well as for administrators to estimate the amount and the characteristics of user generated traffic.