• DocumentCode
    1969286
  • Title

    How to validate traffic generators?

  • Author

    Molnar, Stephen ; Megyesi, Peter ; Szabo, Geza

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Telecomm. & Mediainformatics, Budapest Univ. of Technol. & Econ., Budapest, Hungary
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    9-13 June 2013
  • Firstpage
    1340
  • Lastpage
    1344
  • Abstract
    Network traffic generators are widely used in networking research and they are validated by a very broad range of metrics (mainly traffic characteristics). In this paper we overview the state of the art of these metrics and unveil that there is no consensus in the research community how to validate these traffic generators and which metric to choose for validation purpose. This situation makes it extremely difficult to evaluate validation results and compare different traffic generators. We advocate the research for finding a common set of metrics for the validation and comparative evaluation of traffic generators.
  • Keywords
    network interfaces; telecommunication network management; telecommunication traffic; network traffic generators; networking research; traffic characteristics; validation technique; Engines; Generators; Measurement; Quality of service; Throughput; Wavelet analysis; Wavelet packets;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Communications Workshops (ICC), 2013 IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Budapest
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICCW.2013.6649445
  • Filename
    6649445