On the Characteristics and Origins of Internet Flow Rates
Title | On the Characteristics and Origins of Internet Flow Rates |
Publication Type | Conference Paper |
Year of Publication | 2002 |
Authors | Zhang, Y., Breslau L., Paxson V., & Shenker S. J. |
Published in | Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Conference |
Page(s) | 309-322 |
Other Numbers | 3519 |
Abstract | This paper considers the distribution of the rates at whichflows transmit data, and the causes of these rates. First,using packet level traces from several Internet links, andsummary flow statistics from an ISP backbone, we examineInternet flow rates and the relationship between the rateand other flow characteristics such as size and duration. Wefind, as have others, that while the distribution of flow ratesis skewed, it is not as highly skewed as the distribution offlow sizes. We also find that for large flows the size and rateare highly correlated. Second, we attempt to determine thecause of the rates at which flows transmit data by developinga tool, T-RAT, to analyze packet-level TCP dynamics. Inour traces, the most frequent causes appear to be networkcongestion and receiver window limits. |
URL | http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/pubs/networking/ICSI_oncharacteristicsandorigins02.pdf |
Bibliographic Notes | Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Conference, pp. 309-322, Pittsburgh, Pensylvania |
Abbreviated Authors | Yin Zhang, L. Breslau, V. Paxson, and S. Shenker |
ICSI Research Group | Networking and Security |
ICSI Publication Type | Article in conference proceedings |