Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: In this paper, we present an evaluation of the Ethernet traffic for host and attendees of the popular opensource web conferencing system DimDim.While traditional Internet-centric approaches such as the MBONE have been used over the past decades, current trends for web-based conference systems make exclusive use of application-layer multicast.To allow for network dimensioning and QoS provisioning, an understanding of the underlying traffic characteristics is required.We find in our exemplary evaluations that the host of a web conference session produces a large amount of Ethernet traffic, largely due to the required control of the conference session, that is heavily-tailed distributed and exhibits additionally long-range dependence.For different groups of activities within a web conference session, we find distinctive characteristics of the generated traffic.
Author: Patrick Seeling
Institution: University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point
Language: English
Subfield: Computer Networks and Communications
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2061995083