An empirical model of HTTP network traffic

Author

Mah, Bruce A.

Author_Institution

Comput. Sci. Div., California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1997

fDate

7-12 Apr 1997

Firstpage

592

Abstract

The workload of the global Internet is dominated by the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), an application protocol used by World Wide Web clients and servers. Simulation studies of IP networks require a model of the traffic patterns of the World Wide Web, in order to investigate the effects of this increasingly popular application. We have developed an empirical model of network traffic produced by HTTP. Instead of relying on server or client logs, our approach is based on packet traces of HTTP conversations. Through traffic analysis, we have determined statistics and distributions for higher-level quantities such as the size of HTTP files, the number of files per “Web page”, and user browsing behavior. These quantities form a model can then be used by simulations to mimic World Wide Web network applications

Keywords

Internet; telecommunication traffic; transport protocols; HTTP file sizes; HTTP network traffic; Hypertext Transfer Protocol; IP networks; Internet; Web page; World Wide Web; application protocol; distributions; empirical model; file numbers; packet traces; statistics; traffic analysis; traffic patterns; user browsing behavior; IP networks; Internet; Network servers; Protocols; Statistical analysis; Statistical distributions; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; Web server; Web sites;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

INFOCOM '97. Sixteenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Driving the Information Revolution., Proceedings IEEE

Conference_Location

Kobe

ISSN

0743-166X

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7780-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INFCOM.1997.644510

Filename

644510