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Traffic modeling and simulation plays an important role in the area of Network Monitoring and Analysis, for it provides practitioners with efficient tools to evaluate the performance of networks and of their elements. This article focus on the traffic generated by a single source, providing an overview of what was done in the field and studying the statistical properties of the traffic produced by a personal computer, including analysis of the autocorrelation structure. Different distributions were fitted to the interarrival times, packet sizes, and byte count processes with the goal of singling out the ones most suitable for traffic generation.

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            cover image ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications
            ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications  Volume 6, Issue 3
            August 2010
            203 pages
            ISSN:1551-6857
            EISSN:1551-6865
            DOI:10.1145/1823746
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            • Published: 27 August 2010
            • Accepted: 1 August 2009
            • Revised: 1 October 2008
            • Received: 1 February 2008
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