Seminar by Mr. Amit Sinha
Does different broadband "last mile" see Similar Traffic Behavior? : A Comparative Study
Mr. Amit Sinha
University of Missouri
Date: Thu, Dec 29, 2005
Time: 1600
Venue: CS 103 Abstract:
In recent years, broadband access has become the norm in the Internet world. So far, the practice has been to use the traffic behavior on one broadband access network to plan and design another access network with different access technology; the underlying assumption being that the traffic behavior is similar. Here, we present an analysis of TCP/IP traffic that has been collected from two different broadband access networks: Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) and Broadband Fixed Wireless (BFW). We compare the TCP connection arrival process at the access to understand the aggregate session arrival behavior as seen by the two networks with different broadband technologies. We also compare the TCP session behavior in terms of duration and number of bytes transferred by dominating applications in both the access schemes. We observe that the behavior of the TCP connection arrival process differs due to the influence of the underlying MAC (Medium Access Control) protocol in BFW access, although, the TCP session behavior is similar in both access networks.
About the Speaker:
Amit Sinha received his Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Civil Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology-Roorkee (formerly University of Roorkee), India in 1997. He received his Master of Science Degree in Computer Science from University of Missouri-Kansas City and is completing his Ph.D. from the Computer Science & Electrical Engineering (CSEE) Department at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC). His research interests include traffic data analysis and modeling of telecommunications and computer networks. His research work addresses analysis and modeling of traffic in the broadband access networks: Broadband Fixed Wireless (BFW) and DSL for a comparative analysis. He has specifically done analysis of the behavior of network game traffic. He has also been working in the area of security and survivability focussing on issues related to network routing protocol, specifically the link state routing protocol.