[38492] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet Traffic Discovery?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vijay Gill)
Wed Jun 6 11:47:55 2001
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 11:39:44 -0400
From: Vijay Gill <vijay@umbc.edu>
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On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Craig A. Haney wrote:
> didn't we all already know this?
[ Their surprising discovery - that traffic on heavily loaded,
high-capacity network links is unexpectedly regular ]
These characteristics had been pointed out by Bill Barns and MO in the
core of a promising local ISP. The phrase used was something like "city
pair macro flows are long lived and stable." It is good to get some
formal research into this, backing up emperical data.
/vijay
