[Bloat] some comments on draft-ietf-tsvwg-byte-pkt-congest-10.txt,

[David Collier-Brown]

On 06/18/2013 01:13 AM, Dave Taht wrote
> RFC2309 refers to this 1994 paper:
>
> "On the Self-Similar Nature of Ethernet Traffic (Extended Version)"
>
> I would certainly like the model and analysis of this paper repeated
> against modern traffic patterns. Has anyone done this? I loved this
> paper when it came out....
>
My slightly leaky memory says that a little work has been done with Gig
and 10 Gig ethernet, by capacity planners who saw smaller errors in
queuing-network calculations when the bandwidth was significantly
better.  Previously the "packet train" phenomenon had been making a mess
of their statistical independence assumptions, and giving them huge
errors...

--dave

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