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On the role of flows and sessions in internet traffic modeling: an explorative toy-model

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Fabio Ricciato,

Angelo Coluccia,

Alessandro D'Alconzo,

Pierre Borgnat,

Patrice AbryAuthors Info & Claims

GLOBECOM'09: Proceedings of the 28th IEEE conference on Global telecommunications

Pages 2880 - 2887

Published: 30 November 2009 Publication History

Abstract

In this work we present a simple toy-model that is able to explain certain empirical observations reported in a set of previous papers by Hohn et al. [1]-[3] about the wavelet spectrum of real traffic traces. Therein, the authors found that the wavelet spectrum is substantially invariant to flow scrambling and truncation. Such finding suggested that super-flow structures above the transport layer -- i.e., sessions -- can be ignored for modeling the packet arrival process. Based on the proposed toymodel, we offer an interpretation framework that goes in the opposite direction, indicating that sessions, not transport-layer flows, should be taken as the main structural entities in simplified on/off models.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2555672.2555683
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Coluccia AD'Alconzo ARicciato F(2013)Distribution-Based anomaly detection in network trafficDataTraffic Monitoring and Analysis10.5555/2555672.2555683(202-216)Online publication date: 1-Jan-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2555672.2555683
Callegari CColuccia AD'Alconzo AEllens WGiordano SMandjes MPagano MPepe TRicciato FŻuraniewski P(2013)A methodological overview on anomaly detectionDataTraffic Monitoring and Analysis10.5555/2555672.2555681(148-183)Online publication date: 1-Jan-2013
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