On the Self-Similar Nature of Ethernet Traffic (1993)
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| Venue: | SIGCOMM '93 |
| Citations: | 1580 - 43 self |
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@ARTICLE{Leland93onthe,
author = {Will Leland and Murad S. Taqqu and Walter Willinger and Daniel V. Wilson},
title = {On the Self-Similar Nature of Ethernet Traffic},
journal = {SIGCOMM '93},
year = {1993},
pages = {1--15}
}
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Abstract
We demonstrate that Ethernet local area network (LAN) traffic is statistically self-similar, that none of the commonly used traffic models is able to capture this fractal behavior, and that such behavior has serious implications for the design, control, and analysis of high-speed, cell-based networks. Intuitively, the critical characteristic of this self-similar traffic is that there is no natural length of a "burst": at every time scale ranging from a few milliseconds to minutes and hours, similar-looking traffic bursts are evident; we find that aggregating streams of such traffic typically intensifies the self-similarity ("burstiness") instead of smoothing it. Our conclusions are supported by a rigorous statistical analysis of hundreds of millions of high quality Ethernet traffic measurements collected between 1989 and 1992, coupled with a discussion of the underlying mathematical and statistical properties of self-similarity and their relationship with actual network behavior. We al...
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