A methodology for studying persistency aspects of internet flows

We focus in this paper on Internet flows, consider their contributions to the overall traffic per time unit or bin, and perform a multi-scale and multi-protocol analysis to explore the persistency properties of those flows that contribute the most (also known as "heavy hitters" or "elephants"). Knowing the persistency features (or a lack thereof) of the heavy hitters and understanding their underlying causes is crucial when developing traffic engineering tools that focus primarily on optimizing system performance for elephant flows. The main difficulty when studying the persistency properties of flows is that the available measurements are either too fine-grained to perform large-scale studies (i.e., packet-level traces) or too coarsegrained to extract the detailed information necessary for the purpose at hand (i.e., Netflow traces, SNMP). We deal with this problem by assuming that flows have constant throughput through their lifetime. We then check the validity of...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2005
• Where: CCR
• Authors: Jörg Wallerich, Holger Dreger, Anja Feldmann, Balachander Krishnamurthy, Walter Willinger
• Keywords: CCR 2005, Elephants, Heavy Hitters, Persistency Properties