Does fractal scaling at the IP level depend on TCP flow arrival processes ?
N. Hohn, D. Veitch and P. Abry, ACM/SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Workshop 2002, Marseille, France (PAPER) In addition to the well known long-range dependence in time series of IP bytes and packets, evidence for scaling behaviour has also been found at small scales for these series, separated by a characteristic transition timescale. It is less well known that two scaling regimes are also commonly found in time series describing the arrivals of TCP flows, again with long-range dependence, and with a broadly similar scaling exponent at small scales. The transition timescale is also roughly similar to that found in the IP level case. We investigate the dependencies between the scaling behaviours of the IP and TCP arrival levels at both small and large scales. We also study the origin of scaling at small scales at the IP level. The arrival level process is important to study both for its potential impact on the IP level, and in its own right, for example for web server performance. Our fin
