Symptoms of Self-Similarity in Measured Arrival Process of Ethernet Packets to A File Server

Kimmo E. E. Raatikainen: Symptoms of Self-Similarity in Measured Arrival Process of Ethernet Packets to A File Server. Report C-1994-4, Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, April 1994. pages. <http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/TR/C-1994/4>

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Abstract

Recently Bellcore researchers reported that the measured Ethernet traffic has self-similar characteristics. The self-similarity calls for great changes in engineering practice when compared to traditional models for the arrival process. In this paper we report our measurement study of the arrival process of Ethernet packets into a file server. Our primary finding is that the measured index of dispersion for counts does not provide reliable evidence for or against self-similarity. This conclusion is also supported by extensive simulations.

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Additional Key Words and Phrases: Traffic measurements, Arrival process, Fractal Brownian motion, Markov modulated Poisson process, Model identification