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Design of Traffic Generator Based on Modeling of Characteristic of Multimedia Data  

Kim, Jin-Hyuk (Dept. of Electronic Engineering Inha University)
Shin, Kwang-Sik (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute)
Yoon, Wan-Oh (Dept. of Electronic Engineering Inha University)
Lee, Chang-Ho (Dept. of Electronic Engineering Inha University)
Choi, Sang-Bang (Dept. of Electronic Engineering Inha University)
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Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI / v.47, no.6, 2010 , pp. 103-112 More about this Journal
Abstract
A study on network traffic analysis and modeling has been exclusively done due to its importance. However, conventional studies on network traffic analysis and modeling only focus on transmitting simple packet stream or traffic features of specific application, such as HTTP. In this paper, we propose a network traffic generator, which reflects the characteristics of multimedia data. To analyze the traffics of online game, which is one of the most popular multimedia contents, we modeled the distribution according to the time between packets and packet size random variable and designed the traffic generator which has the model for input. We generated the traffics of L4D(Left4Dead), WoW(World of Warcraft) with proposed network traffic generator and we found that the generated traffics have similar distributions with real data.
Keywords
traffic generator; traffic analysis; analytical model; online gaming traffic;
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