Title :
Measurement and modeling of WWW traffic in a LAN environment
Author :
Liang, L. ; Sun, Z. ; Howarth, M.
Author_Institution :
Surrey Univ., UK
Abstract :
The Internet is growing to play a core role in people´s daily lives. Network traffic control and QoS guarantees are highly demanded in multiservice network´s performance; this can only be achieved by measuring and analyzing network traffic. This paper describes how software based on the Winpcap library has been developed and used to measure the most popular Internet application, World Wide Web (WWW) traffic, on a typical Ethernet LAN. We demonstrate how to measure and analyze the interarrival time and size of HTTP packets and derive statistical parameters from them. Analytical traffic models are developed based on the measurement results.
Keywords :
Internet; local area networks; packet switching; quality of service; telecommunication congestion control; telecommunication traffic; HTTP packets; Internet; LAN; QoS; WWW traffic; Winpcap library; World Wide Web; analytical traffic models; impulse function; interarrival time; inverse Gaussian; multiservice network; network performance; network traffic control; statistical parameters; telephony traffic modeling; Application software; Communication system traffic control; Internet; Local area networks; Performance analysis; Software libraries; Software measurement; Traffic control; Web sites; World Wide Web;
Conference_Titel :
EUROCON 2003. Computer as a Tool. The IEEE Region 8
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7763-X
DOI :
10.1109/EURCON.2003.1248059
