A multiscaling traffic model for UDP streams

Although most of the traffic carried over the Internet uses the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) as the transport layer protocol, it is of paramount importance to develop models for streams that use the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), since these streams are inelastic and, consequently, they can jeopardize the acquisition of bandwidth by TCP streams. This paper introduces a traffic model for UDP streams and its performance is compared to those of other traffic models. The proposed model can be used to generate streams of aggregated UDP sources in simulation experiments.