A flow-based model for internet backbone traffic

Authors:
Chadi Barakat;Patrick Thiran;Gianluca Iannaccone;Christophe Diot;Philippe Owezarski
Affiliations:
INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France;EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland;Sprint ATL, Burlingame, CA;Sprint ATL, Burlingame, CA;LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Internet measurment
Year:
2002

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Abstract

Our goal is to design a traffic model for uncongested IP backbone links that is simple enough to be used in network operation, and that is protocol and application agnostic in order to be as general as possible. The proposed solution is to model the traffic at the flow level by a Poisson shot-noise process. In our model, a flow is a generic notion that must be able to capture the characteristics of any kind of data stream. We analyze the accuracy of the model with real traffic traces collected on the Sprint IP backbone network. Despite its simplicity, our model provides a good approximation of the real traffic observed in the backbone and of its variation. Finally, we discuss three applications of our model to network design and management.