Modeling and Estimation Techniques for Wide-Area Network Traffic with Atypical Components

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dc.contributor.authorMinton, Carl Edwarden
dc.contributor.committeechairMidkiff, Scott F.en
dc.contributor.committeememberJacobs, Iraen
dc.contributor.committeememberDavis, Nathaniel J. IVen
dc.contributor.departmentElectrical and Computer Engineeringen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T20:34:37Zen
dc.date.adate2002-04-30en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T20:34:37Zen
dc.date.issued2002-04-25en
dc.date.rdate2003-04-30en
dc.date.sdate2002-04-30en
dc.description.abstractA critical first step to improving existing and designing future wide-area networks is an understanding of the load placed on these networks. Efforts to model traffic are often confounded by atypical traffic - traffic particular to the observation site not ubiquitously applicable. The causes and characteristics of atypical traffic are explored in this thesis. Atypical traffic is found to interfere with parsimonious analytic traffic models. A detection and modeling technique is presented and studied for atypical traffic characterized by strongly clustered inliers. This technique is found to be effective using both real-world observations and simulated data. Another form of atypical traffic is shown to result in multimodal distributions of connection statistics. Putative methods for bimodal estimation are reviewed and a novel technique, the midpoint-distance profile, is presented. The performance of these estimation techniques is studied via simulation and the methods are examined in the context of atypical network traffic. The advantages and disadvantages of each method are reported.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Scienceen
dc.identifier.otheretd-04302002-092355en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-04302002-092355/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/32044en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
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dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
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dc.subjectcontamination detectionen
dc.subjectmultimodal estimationen
dc.subjectatypical network trafficen
dc.titleModeling and Estimation Techniques for Wide-Area Network Traffic with Atypical Componentsen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineElectrical and Computer Engineeringen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Scienceen

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