[e2e] FGN?

Vern Paxson vern at icir.org
Tue Dec 17 14:16:06 PST 2002


> Thank you for replying. FGN describes the arrival process of an aggregated 
> traffic flows. My question is, how do you assign the generated 'arrival' 
> from FGN to each of the flows to make it useful for simulation?

That was my point - that there's no clear way to do that (clear = justified
in terms of how traffic sources actually behave).  Instead, this is usually
done in the opposite direction: you simulate heavy-tailed ON/OFF traffic
sources, and as these get aggregated together on a link, the aggregate
traffic seen on the link is (asymptotically) FGN.

		Vern




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