Realistic and responsive network traffic generation

Computer Communication Review

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 111-122

  Vishwanath, Kashi Venkatesh ^a   Vahdat, Amin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Burstiness; Energy plot; Generator; Internet; Modeling; Structural model; Traffic; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

BURSTINESS; ENERGY PLOT; STRUCTURAL MODEL;

CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PACKET NETWORKS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

EID: 33750358069     PISSN: 01464833     EISSN: 01464833     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1151659.1159928     Document Type: Conference Paper

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