Self-similarity in World Wide Web traffic: evidence and possible causes Export

@article{citeulike:2879044, abstract = {The notion of self-similarity has been shown to apply to wide-area and local-area network traffic. We show evidence that the subset of network traffic that is due to World Wide Web (WWW) transfers can show characteristics that are consistent with self-similarity, and we present a hypothesized explanation for that self-similarity. Using a set of traces of actual user executions of NCSA Mosaic, we examine the dependence structure of WWW traffic. First, we show evidence that WWW traffic exhibits behavior that is consistent with self-similar traffic models. Then we show that the self-similarity in such traffic can be explained based on the underlying distributions of WWW document sizes, the effects of caching and user preference in file transfer, the effect of user \“think time\”, and the superimposition of many such transfers in a local-area network. To do this, we rely on empirically measured distributions both from client traces and from data independently collected at WWW servers}, address = {Piscataway, NJ, USA}, author = {Crovella, M. E. and Bestavros, A.}, citeulike-article-id = {2879044}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=270856.270880}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/90.650143}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=650143}, doi = {10.1109/90.650143}, issn = {1063-6692}, journal = {IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw.}, keywords = {and, causes, evidence, in, possible, self-similarity, traffic, web, wide, world}, month = {December}, number = {6}, pages = {835--846}, posted-at = {2008-11-23 21:54:38}, priority = {2}, publisher = {IEEE Press}, title = {Self-similarity in World Wide Web traffic: evidence and possible causes}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/90.650143}, volume = {5}, year = {1997} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2879044 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2879044 N2 - The notion of self-similarity has been shown to apply to wide-area and local-area network traffic. We show evidence that the subset of network traffic that is due to World Wide Web (WWW) transfers can show characteristics that are consistent with self-similarity, and we present a hypothesized explanation for that self-similarity. Using a set of traces of actual user executions of NCSA Mosaic, we examine the dependence structure of WWW traffic. First, we show evidence that WWW traffic exhibits behavior that is consistent with self-similar traffic models. Then we show that the self-similarity in such traffic can be explained based on the underlying distributions of WWW document sizes, the effects of caching and user preference in file transfer, the effect of user “think time”, and the superimposition of many such transfers in a local-area network. To do this, we rely on empirically measured distributions both from client traces and from data independently collected at WWW servers IS - 6 JF - IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw. SN - 1063-6692 AD - Piscataway, NJ, USA EP - 846 TI - Self-similarity in World Wide Web traffic: evidence and possible causes PB - IEEE Press VL - 5 SP - 835 KW - and KW - causes KW - evidence KW - in KW - possible KW - self-similarity KW - traffic KW - web KW - wide KW - world AU - Crovella, ME AU - Bestavros, A PY - 1997/12// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/90.650143 ER -