Tmix: A tool for generating realistic TCP application workloads in ns-2

Computer Communication Review

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 65-76

  Weigle, Michele C ^a   Adurthi, Prashanth ^a   Hernández Campos, Félix ^b   Jeffay, Kevin ^b   Smith, F Donelson ^b  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

ns; Source level modeling; Synthetic traffic generation

Indexed keywords

NS; SOURCE-LEVEL MODELING; SYNTHETIC TRAFFIC GENERATION; TMIX;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONNECTORS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 33746144908     PISSN: 01464833     EISSN: 01464833     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1140086.1140094     Document Type: Article

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