Measurement and Analysis of HTTP Traffic
| Document type: | Journal Articles |
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| Article type: | Original article |
| Peer reviewed: | Yes |
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| Author(s): | Yogesh Bhole, Adrian Popescu |
| Title: | Measurement and Analysis of HTTP Traffic |
| Journal: | Journal of Network and Systems Management |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Volume: | 13 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Pagination: | 357-371 |
| ISSN: | 1064-7570 |
| Publisher: | Springer Science+Business Media B.V., Formerly Kluwer Academic Publishers B.V. |
| Organization: | Blekinge Institute of Technology |
| Department: | School of Engineering - Dept. of Telecommunication Systems (Sektionen för teknik – avd. för telekommunikationssystem) School of Engineering S- 372 25 Ronneby +46 455 38 50 00 http://www.tek.bth.se/ |
| Authors e-mail: | yohbhe03@student.umu.se, apo@bth.se |
| Language: | English |
| Abstract: | The usage of Internet is rapidly increasing and a large part of the Internet traffic is generated by the World Wide Web (WWW) and the associated protocol HiperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP). Several important parameters that affect the performance of the WWW are bandwidth, scalability and latency. To tackle these parameters and to improve the overall performance of the system, it is important to understand and to characterize the application level characteristics. This article is reporting on the measurement and analysis of HTTP traffic collected on the student access network at the Blekinge Institute of Technology in Karlskrona, Sweden. The analysis is done on various HTTP traffic parameters, e.g., inter-session timings, inter-arrival timings, request message sizes, response code and number of transactions. The reported results can be useful for building synthetic workloads for simulation and benchmarking purposes. |
| Subject: | Computer Science\Networks and Communications Telecommunications\Modelling of Bursty Traffics |
| Keywords: | World Wide Web, HyperText Transfer Protocol, Performance, Service Level Agreement |
