Performance Evaluation of Complex Systems: Techniques and Tools, Performance 2002, Tutorial Lectures
Design and evaluation of web proxies by leveraging self-similarity of web traffic
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking - Special issue: Network modelling and simulation
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Since the early 1990's, a variety of studies has shown that network traffic, both for local- and wide-area networks, has self-similarity properties. This has led to new approaches in network traffic modelling because most traditional traffic approaches lead to the underestimation of performance measures of interest. Instead of developing completely new traffic models, a number of researchers have proposed to adapt traditional traffic modelling approaches to incorporate aspects of self-similarity. The motivation for doing so is the hope to be able to reuse techniques and tools that have been developed in the past and with which experience has been gained.One such an approach for a traffic model that incorporates aspects of self-similarity is the so-called pseudo self-similar traffic model. This model is appealing, as it is easy to understand and easily embedded in Markovian performance evaluation studies.In applying this model in a number of cases, we have perceived various problems which we initially thought were particular to these specific cases. However, we recently have been able to show that these problems are fundamental to the pseudo self-similar traffic model.In this paper we briefly review the pseudo self-similar traffic model and discuss its fundamental shortcomings. As far as we know, this is the first paper that discusses theseshortcomings formally. We also report on ongoing work to overcome some of these problems.