SMALL AGGREGATIONS OF ON/OFF TRAFFIC SOURCES

摘要

A simple and effective technique for synthesis of network traffic is evaluated, both in simulation and in a real network testbed. The technique, aggregation of a small number of on/off sources with heavy-tailed state holding times is seen to provide traffic that has characteristics consistent with long-range dependence and offers a convenient method for fitting mean, variance, and Hurst parameter of target workloads.