Re: Background traffic

[Tom Henderson <tomh@kayak.CS.Berkeley.EDU>]

We've ported Bruce Mah's WWW traffic generator from INSANE.  It can be
used to produce background traffic representative of WWW traffic (based on
traffic traces).

See http://www-mash.cs.berkeley.edu/ns/ns-contributed.html

Tom

On Thu, 4 Sep 1997, Hemon Bruno wrote:

> 
> I am studying the behavior of several TCP connections sharing the same
> bottleneck. 
> I need to have a sort of background traffic, to introduce some packet
> losses and some randomness.
> I was thinking of using a UDP traffic source but I don't know really how
> to choose the parameters. 
> Do you have any idea of how to simulate a background traffic, whose
> characteristics would be representative of the Internet traffic ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>                 Bruno 
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