Measurement-based emulation of equivalent IP traffic source

When using simulation in analysis networks with number of sources, one of problems is creating traffic sources matching real network data. Credibility of conclusions acquired by simulation tools are in great deal dependent of fidelity of simulation traffic source generators. This paper presents one simple approach for real traffic source reconstruction on the basis on limited real traffic data. Source model achieved here is almost in every aspect same as measured real traffic on large IP network; necessary steps and practical applications are shown here as well.