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In computer networking, the burst ratio is a parameter of the packet loss process, containing information about the tendency of losses to occur in blocks, rather than as separate units. Its value is especially important for real-time multimedia transmissions. In this paper, we report the measurements of the value of this parameter carried out in the networking laboratory. These measurements involved high volumes of traffic, different numbers of flows, different TCP/UDP traffic proportions and different packet sizes. In every case, a high value of the burst ratio was obtained. This is an experimental confirmation of the conjecture that the buffering mechanisms, commonly used in the contemporary networks, make the packet losses to group together.
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The closest value to 100 divisible by 8. Setting the buffer size to be divisible by 8 is required by many Cisco devices.
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This work was conducted within project 2017/25/B/ST6/00110, founded by National Science Centre, Poland. The infrastructure was supported by PL-LAB2020 project, founded by National Centre for Research and Development, Poland, contract POIG.02.03.01-00-104/13-00.
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Samociuk, D., Chydzinski, A., Barczyk, M. (2018). Experimental Measurements of the Packet Burst Ratio Parameter. In: Kozielski, S., Mrozek, D., Kasprowski, P., Małysiak-Mrozek, B., Kostrzewa, D. (eds) Beyond Databases, Architectures and Structures. Facing the Challenges of Data Proliferation and Growing Variety. BDAS 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 928. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99987-6_35
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