Measured capacity of an Ethernet: myths and reality
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Conference proceedings on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Heavy-tailed probability distributions in the World Wide Web
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On modeling local area networks
WSC '88 Proceedings of the 20th conference on Winter simulation
Measured performance of an Ethernet local network
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Ethernet: distributed packet switching for local computer networks
Communications of the ACM
What TCP/IP protocol headers can tell us about the web
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Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice
Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice
Efficient and Accurate Ethernet Simulation
LCN '99 Proceedings of the 24th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks
The behavior of Ethernet-like computer communications networks
SOSP '79 Proceedings of the seventh ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
An Empirical Model of HTTP Network Traffic
INFOCOM '97 Proceedings of the INFOCOM '97. Sixteenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Driving the Information Revolution
Understanding packet delivery performance in dense wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
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An important question for network simulation is what level of detail is required to obtain a desired level of accuracy. While in some networks, the level of detail is an open research issue (for example, radio propagation models in wireless networks), it has long been assumed that wired networks could be accurately modeled by fairly simple queues with a bandwidth limit and propagation delay. To our knowledge this assumption has not been widely tested. In this paper we evaluate different levels of detail for an Ethernet simulation. We consider two models for Ethernet simulation; a detailed, CSMA/CD protocol based model and a more abstract model using a DropTail, shared queue. Using traffic with two different TCP simulation models, we evaluated the accuracy of these Ethernet models as compared to testbed measurements. We observed the DropTail Ethernet model requires significantly less execution time and can accurately model performance using a bandwidth normalization factor.