The Effects of Traffic Structure on Application and Network Performance

1. Introduction
Jay Aikat, Kevin Jeffay, F. Donelson Smith

2. Background and Related Work
Jay Aikat, Kevin Jeffay, F. Donelson Smith

3. Workload Modeling and Traffic Generation
Jay Aikat, Kevin Jeffay, F. Donelson Smith

4. Experimental Methodology
Jay Aikat, Kevin Jeffay, F. Donelson Smith

5. Results: Effects of Round Trip Times and Connection Structures on Application and Network Performance
Jay Aikat, Kevin Jeffay, F. Donelson Smith

6. Additional Results
Jay Aikat, Kevin Jeffay, F. Donelson Smith

7. Conclusion
Jay Aikat, Kevin Jeffay, F. Donelson Smith

Keywords: Computer Science, Computer Communication Networks, Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks, Communications Engineering, Networks, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), System Performance and Evaluation