Contents

• List of Tables
• List of Figures
• Introduction
  • Abstract Source-Level Modeling
  • Source-Level Trace Replay
  • Trace Resampling and Load Scaling
  • Thesis Statement
  • Contributions
  • Overview
  
  
• Related Work
  • Packet-Level Traffic Generation
  • Source-Level Traffic Generation
    • Web Traffic Modeling
    • Non-Web Traffic Source-level Modeling
    • Beyond Single Application Modeling
  • Scaling Offered Load
  • Implementing Traffic Generation
  • Summary
  
  
• Abstract Source-level Modeling
  • The Sequential a-b-t Model
    • Client/Server Applications
    • Beyond Client/Server Applications
  • The Concurrent a-b-t Model
  • Abstract Source-Level Measurement
    • From TCP Sequence Numbers to Application Data Units
    • Logical Order of Data Segments
    • Data Analysis Algorithm
  • Validation using Synthetic Applications
  • Analysis Results
    • Variability Across Sites
    • Time-of-Day Variability and Workload Directionality
  • Summary
  
  
• Network-Level Parameters and Metrics
  • Network-level Parameters
    • Round-Trip Time
    • Receiver Window Size
    • Loss Rate
  • Network-level Metrics
    • Aggregate Throughput Time Series
    • Throughput Marginals
    • Throughput Self-Similarity and Long-Range Dependence
    • Time Series of Active Connections
  • Summary
  
  
• Generating Traffic
  • Replaying Traces at the Source-Level
    • Trace Partitioning
    • Conducting Experiments
    • Data Collection
  • Validation of Source-level Trace Replay
    • Leipzig-II
    • UNC 1 PM
    • Abilene-I
  • Summary
  
  
• Reproducing Traffic
  • Beyond Comparing Connection Vectors
  • Source-level Replay of Leipzig-II
    • Time Series of Byte Throughput
    • Time Series of Packet Throughput
    • Marginal Distributions
    • Long-Range Dependence
    • Time Series of Active Connections
  • Source-level Replay of UNC 1 PM
    • Time Series of Byte Throughput
    • Time Series of Packet Throughput
    • Marginal Distributions
    • Long-Range Dependence
    • Time Series of Active Connections
  • Mid-Chapter Review
    • Observations on Byte Throughput
    • Observations on Packet Throughput
    • Observations on Active Connections
  • Source-level Replay of UNC 1 AM
    • Time Series of Byte Throughput
    • Time Series of Packet Throughput
    • Marginal Distributions
    • Long-Range Dependence
    • Time Series of Active Connections
  • Source-level Replay of UNC 7:30 PM
    • Time Series of Byte Throughput
    • Time Series of Packet Throughput
    • Marginal Distributions
    • Long-Range Dependence
    • Time Series of Active Connections
  • Source-level Replay of Abilene-I
    • Time Series of Byte Throughput
    • Time Series of Packet Throughput
    • Marginal Distributions
    • Long-Range Dependence
    • Time Series of Active Connections
  • Summary
  
  
• Trace Resampling and Load Scaling
  • Poisson Resampling
    • Basic Poisson Resampling
    • Byte-Driven Poisson Resampling
  • Block Resampling
  • Summary
  
  
• Conclusions and Future Work
  • Empirical Modeling of Traffic Mixes
  • Refining and Extending our Modeling
  • Assessing Realism in Synthetic Traffic
  • Incorporating Additional Network-Level Parameter
  • Flexible Traffic Generation
  
  
• Bibliography
• About this document ...

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