Growth Trends in Wide-Area TCP Connections (1993)
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| Citations: | 72 - 11 self |
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@ARTICLE{Paxson93growthtrends,
author = {Vern Paxson},
title = {Growth Trends in Wide-Area TCP Connections},
journal = {IEEE Network},
year = {1993},
volume = {8},
pages = {8--17}
}
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Abstract
We analyze the growth of a medium-sized research laboratory 's wide-area TCP connections over a period of more than two years. Our data consisted of six month-long traces of all TCP connections made between the site and the rest of the world. We find that smtp, ftp, and X11 traffic all exhibited exponential growth in the number of connections and bytes transferred, at rates significantly greater than that at which the site's overall computing resources grew; that individual users increasingly affected the site's traffic profile by making wide-area connections from background scripts; that the proportion of local computers participating in wide-area traffic outpaces the site's overall growth; that use of the network by individual computers appears to be constant for some protocols (telnet) and growing exponentially for others (ftp, smtp); and that wide-area traffic geography is diverse and dynamic. 1 Introduction To properly design future networks, we need a thorough understanding of...
