A Tool for RApid Model Parameterization and its Applications. Lan, K. & Heidemann, J. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Models, Methods and Tools for Reproducible Network Research (MoMeTools), pages to appear, Karlsruhe, Germany, August, 2003. ACM.
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The utility of simulations and analysis heavily relies on good models of network traffic. However, it is difficult to model and simulate the Internet traffic because of the network's great heterogeneity and rapid change. The statistical properties of Internet traffic not only constantly change over time but also vary in other dimensions such as locations and directions. Previously we have developed a tool RAMP that supports rapid parameterization of traffic models from live network measurements. In this paper, we first extend RAMP to support near-real-time trace-driven simulation. Next, we demonstrate the applications of RAMP via three case studies: generation of realistic traffic model for simulation, generation of high bandwidth synthetic network traces, and analysis and modeling of malicious traffic. Finally, we discuss some lessons we learned from using RAMP for traffic modeling.
@InProceedings{Lan03b,
	author = 	"Kun-chan Lan and John Heidemann",
	title = 	"A Tool for {RApid} Model Parameterization and its Applications",
	booktitle = 	"Proceedings of the " # " Workshop on Models, Methods and Tools for Reproducible Network Research (MoMeTools)",
	year = 		2003,
	sortdate = 		"2003-08-01", 
	project = "ant, saman",
	jsubject = "traffic_modeling",
	publisher =	"ACM",
	address =	"Karlsruhe, Germany",
	month =		aug,
	pages =		"to appear",
	jlocation =	"johnh: folder: xxx",
	jlocation =	"johnh: pafile",
	keywords =	"RAMP, traffic modeling, on-line traffic modeling",
	url =		"https://ant.isi.edu/%7ejohnh/PAPERS/Lan03b.html",
	pdfurl =	"https://ant.isi.edu/%7ejohnh/PAPERS/Lan03b.pdf",
	myorganization =	"USC/Information Sciences Institute",
	copyrightholder = "ACM",
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	abstract = "
The utility of simulations and analysis heavily relies on good models
of network traffic. However, it is difficult to model and simulate the
Internet traffic because of the network's great heterogeneity and
rapid change. The statistical properties of Internet traffic not only
constantly change over time but also vary in other dimensions such as
locations and directions. Previously we have developed a tool RAMP
that supports rapid parameterization of traffic models from live
network measurements. In this paper, we first extend RAMP to support
near-real-time trace-driven simulation.  Next, we demonstrate the
applications of RAMP via three case studies: generation of realistic
traffic model for simulation, generation of high bandwidth synthetic
network traces, and analysis and modeling of malicious
traffic. Finally, we discuss some lessons we learned from using RAMP
for traffic modeling.
",
}

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