[156181] in North American Network Operators' Group
Traffic Burstiness Survey
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Monia Ghobadi)
Mon Sep 10 18:28:44 2012
From: Monia Ghobadi <monia@cs.toronto.edu>
Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2012 20:23:53 -0400
To: NANOG@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Dear Nanog members,
I am a PhD student at University of Toronto and I am working on traffic
burstiness in data centers. In the following I am asking two questions to
raise motivation for my research. I appreciate if anyone could answer these
questions to their best knowledge. *The questions are:*
1) =91Bursty=92 is a word with no agreed meaning. How do you define a burst=
y
traffic?
2) If you are involved with a data center, is your data center traffic
bursty?
-- If yes,
-- Do you think that it will be useful to supress the burstiness
in your traffic? (For example by pacing the traffic into shorter bursts)
-- If no:
-- Are you already supressing the burstiness? How?
-- Would you anticipate the traffic becoming burstier in the
future?
Thanks,
Monia
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Monia Ghobadi
PhD Student
University of Toronto
http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~monia/
