Internet stream size distributions

  • Authors:
  • Nevil Brownlee;kc claffy

  • Affiliations:
  • CAIDA, SDSC, UC San Diego and The University of Auckland, New Zealand;CAIDA, SDSC UC San Diego

  • Venue:
  • SIGMETRICS '02 Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We present and discuss stream size and lifetime distributions for web and non-web TCP traffic on a campus OC12 link at UC San Diego. The distributions are stable over long periods, and show that on this link only 3% of the streams last longer than one minute, and that only about 0.5% of them are bigger than 100 kBytes. Although there are large streams (elephants) on this link, the bulk of its traffic is composed of many small streams (mice).