On the effect of traffic self-similarity on network performance

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3231, Issue , 1997, Pages 296-310

  Park, Kihong ^a   Kim, Gitae ^b   Crovella, Mark ^b  

^a Purdue University   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Congestion control and quality of service; Network performance; Self similar traffic

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION LAYERS; ARRIVAL RATES; AS LINKS; BOUNDED NETWORKS; BUFFER CAPACITIES; BUFFER UTILIZATIONS; BURSTINESS; CONGESTION CONTROL AND QUALITY OF SERVICE; CONGESTION CONTROLS; DATA STREAMS; FILE TRANSFERS; HIGHLY SENSITIVES; IMPROVED PERFORMANCES; IN PACKETS; INCREMENTAL IMPROVEMENTS; LARGE BUFFERS; LINK UTILIZATIONS; NETWORK PERFORMANCE; NETWORK PERFORMANCES; NETWORK RESOURCES; NETWORK SYSTEMS; NETWORK TRAFFICS; PACKET LOSS RATES; PACKET RETRANSMISSION; PERFORMANCE CURVES; PERFORMANCE GAINS; QUANTITATIVE RESULTS; QUEUEING DELAYS; RELIABLE COMMUNICATIONS; RESPONSE TIMES; ROBUST APPLICATIONS; SELF SIMILARITIES; SELF-SIMILAR TRAFFIC; SELF-SIMILAR TRAFFICS; SOURCE TRAFFICS; TCP RENO; TRAFFIC SOURCES; TRAFFIC TRACES; TRANSPORT LAYERS; UBIQUITOUS PHENOMENONS; WIDE AREAS;

COMPUTER NETWORKS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; INTERNET; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; PACKET LOSS; PACKET NETWORKS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUALITY CONTROL; QUEUEING NETWORKS; QUEUEING THEORY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; THEOREM PROVING; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 0005425921     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.290419     Document Type: Conference Paper

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