Traffic Burstiness Survey

[hj1980 at gmail.com (Heath Jones)]

Hi Monia,

'Burst' is a very broad term. It would be useful to clarify to what you are
referring.. I can think of a few possibilities:

- Data Transmission: The length of an uninterrupted flow of information.
- Traffic Engineering: The ability for traffic to temporarily exceed it's
allocated (average) bandwidth share.
- Internal Event: A backup (scheduled) or a server failure (adhoc) altering
traffic patterns.
- External Event: Marketing campaign / event coinciding with increased
traffic towards say, a website.

Perhaps -> Over what period of time is a 'Burst'..?


Cheers,
Heath


On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Monia Ghobadi <monia at cs.toronto.edu> wrote:

> Dear Nanog members,
>
> I am a PhD student at University of Toronto and I am working on traffic
> burstiness in data centers. In the following I am asking two questions to
> raise motivation for my research. I appreciate if anyone could answer these
> questions to their best knowledge. *The questions are:*
>
> 1) ?Bursty? is a word with no agreed meaning. How do you define a bursty
> traffic?
> 2) If you are involved with a data center, is your data center traffic
> bursty?
>    -- If yes,
>          -- Do you think that it will be useful to supress the burstiness
> in your traffic? (For example by pacing the traffic into shorter bursts)
>     -- If no:
>         -- Are you already supressing the burstiness? How?
>          -- Would you anticipate the traffic becoming burstier in the
> future?
>
> Thanks,
> Monia
>
> ------------------
> Monia Ghobadi
> PhD Student
> University of Toronto
> http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~monia/
>