Technometrics
Empirically derived analytic models of wide-area TCP connections
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Wide area traffic: the failure of Poisson modeling
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
High-speed networks: TCP/IP and ATM design principles
High-speed networks: TCP/IP and ATM design principles
Self-similarity in World Wide Web traffic: evidence and possible causes
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Generating representative Web workloads for network and server performance evaluation
SIGMETRICS '98/PERFORMANCE '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM SIGMETRICS joint international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Modeling TCP throughput: a simple model and its empirical validation
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM '98 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Comparative performance analysis of versions of TCP in a local network with a lossy link
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
The failure of TCP in high-performance computational grids
Proceedings of the 2000 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Traffic model and performance evaluation of Web servers
Performance Evaluation
Long-Range Dependence: Ten Years of Internet Traffic Modeling
IEEE Internet Computing
A stochastic model of TCP/IP with stationary random losses
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
On TCP and self-similar traffic
Performance Evaluation - Long range dependence and heavy tail distributions
End-to-end routing behavior in the internet
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
A first look at modern enterprise traffic
IMC '05 Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet Measurement
Characterizing Network Traffic in a Cluster-based, Multi-tier Data Center
ICDCS '07 Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
Data transfers in the grid: workload analysis of globus GridFTP
DADC '08 Proceedings of the 2008 international workshop on Data-aware distributed computing
A survey-based study of grid traffic
Proceedings of the first international conference on Networks for grid applications
Balancing TCP buffer vs parallel streams in application level throughput optimization
Proceedings of the second international workshop on Data-aware distributed computing
Research note: Source models of network game traffic
Computer Communications
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Grid computing has been widely adopted for intensive high performance computing. Since grid resources are distributed over complex large-scale infrastructures, understanding grid site data traffic behaviour is important for efficient resource utilisation, performance optimisation, and the design of future grid sites as well as traffic-aware grid applications. In this paper, we study and analyse the traffic generated at a grid site in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Computing Grid (LCG). We find that most of the generated traffic is TCP-based and that a small set of grid applications generate significant amounts of the data. Upon analysing the different traffic metrics, we also find that the traffic exhibits long-range dependence and self-similarity. We also investigate packet-level metrics such as throughput, packet rate, round trip time (RTT) and packet loss. Our study establishes that these metrics can be well represented by Gaussian mixture models. The findings we present in this paper will enable accurate grid site traffic monitoring and potentially on-the-fly traffic modelling and prediction. It will also lead to a better understanding of grid site's traffic behaviour and contribute to more efficient grid site planning, traffic management, data transmission protocol optimisation, and data-aware grid application design.