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Wide Area Networks

In [3], Paxson and Floyd find that user initiated TCP session arrivals, such as remote­login and file­transfer, are well­modeled as Poisson processes with fixed hourly rates, but that other connection arrivals deviate considerably from Poisson. Besides, modeling TELNET packet inter arrivals as exponential grievously underestimates the bursti­ ness of TELNET traffic, but using the empirical Tcplib inter arrivals preserves burstiness over many time scales and that FTP data connection arrivals within FTP sessions come bunched into ``connection bursts'', the largest of which are so large that they completely dominate FTP data traffic.



Hei Xiao Jun
5/2/2001