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Measuring and Analyzing the Burst Ratio in IP Traffic

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The burst ratio is a parameter of the packet loss process, characterizing the tendency of losses to group together, in long series. Such series of losses are especially unwelcome in multimedia transmissions, which constitute a large fraction of contemporary traffic. In this paper, we first present and discuss results of measurements of the burst ratio in IP traffic, at a bottleneck link of our university campus. The measurements were conducted in various network conditions, i.e. various loads, ports/applications used and packet size distributions. Secondly, we present theoretical values of the burst ratio, computed using a queueing model, and compare them with the values obtained in the measurements.

This work was conducted within project 2017/25/B/ST6/00110, founded by National Science Centre, Poland.

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    Dominik Samociuk, Marek Barczyk & Andrzej Chydzinski

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Samociuk, D., Barczyk, M., Chydzinski, A. (2019). Measuring and Analyzing the Burst Ratio in IP Traffic. In: Li, Q., Song, S., Li, R., Xu, Y., Xi, W., Gao, H. (eds) Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems. Broadnets 2019. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 303. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36442-7_6

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