An Introduction to Internet Measurement

6/20/99


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Table of Contents

An Introduction to Internet Measurement

Overview

What is the Internet?

Packet loss and congestion control:

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Size of the Internet?

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The Internet is Diverse

The Internet is Diverse, con’t

New applications radically alter the landscape

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Conclusion- Internet

Network Traffic Modeling

Traditional network modeling

Implications of Poisson modeling

Poisson Assumptions

The failure of Poisson Modeling

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The Fractal Revolution

Self-similar processes

Assessing self-similarity

Variance-time plots

Variance-time plots, con’t

The origin of self-similarity

Nile River’s Minima

Nile River’s Minima, con’t

Evidences in Network Traffic

Evidences in Network Traffic, con’t

Impact on network engineering

Possible explanation

Relationship between heavy tails and self similarity

Heavy tails in computing:

Conclusion

Author: Michael Jiang