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In this chapter, we present two main topics: traffic characteristics of the input traffic used in this study, and the models developed for this traffic to represent the application workloads and network characteristics. This chapter is organized as follows: in Section 3.1 we give detailed analyses for the traffic characteristics of the two sets of input traffic mixes – UNC and IBM - that we use as input for all our experiments for traffic generation. In Section 3.2 we discuss the Tmix traffic generation system used for all our experiments in this study. In Sections 3.3 and 3.4 we develop the six different connection structure models (application workloads) for TCP connections and the seven different round trip time models (network characteristics) for emulating the end-to-end paths.
Building a large packet-switching network is easy; understanding the behavior of traffic in a large packet-switching network is nearly impossible.
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Aikat, J., Jeffay, K., Smith, F.D. (2012). Workload Modeling and Traffic Generation. In: The Effects of Traffic Structure on Application and Network Performance. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1848-1_3
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