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Over the last few years the Internet has grown from a few thousand to some millions of hosts, interconnected by a confusing number of subnetworks. In such a complex environment, end-to-end performance investigation of network services is an important but difficult problem. Based on delay samples collected by a specialised network tracer tool, we propose a modelling approach to analytically describe Internet round-trip times. Our objective is to demonstrate how approximations of client-server response time distributions can be used by distributed application programmers or network designers to emulate underlying network services.
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Fasbender, A., Davids, P. (1995). Measurement, modelling and emulation of internet round-trip delays. In: Beilner, H., Bause, F. (eds) Quantitative Evaluation of Computing and Communication Systems. TOOLS 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 977. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0024330
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