[e2e] FGN?

Wu Min wumin_noname at hotmail.com
Tue Dec 17 12:54:19 PST 2002


Hi,

Thank you for replying. FGN describes the arrival process of an aggregated 
traffic flows. My question is, how do you assign the generated 'arrival' 
from FGN to each of the flows to make it useful for simulation?

-Wumin

>From: Vern Paxson <vern at icir.org>
>To: "Wu Min" <wumin_noname at hotmail.com>
>CC: end2end-interest at postel.org
>Subject: Re: [e2e] FGN? Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 23:08:12 -0800
>
> > Does anyone has program to generate heavy-tailed flows using FGN?
>
>This is actually not a well-formed question.
>
>FGN can be used to describe an arrival process seen on a link, for time
>scales on which those arrivals are self-similar.  But such an arrival
>process is (perhaps) the *result* of the aggregation of heavy-tailed flows;
>it's not a way to generate them.
>
>		Vern


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