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We aim to broadly study the ways that modern applications use the underlying protocols and networks. Such an understanding is necessary when designing and optimizing lower-layer protocols. Traditionally—as prior work shows—applications have been well represented as bulk transfers, often preceded by application-layer handshaking. Recent suggestions posit that application evolution has eclipsed this simple model, and a typical pattern is now a series of transactions over a single transport layer connection. In this initial study we examine application transmission patterns via packet traces from two networks to better understand the ways that modern applications use TCP.
Work supported in part by NSF grants CNS-0831535 and CNS-1213157.
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Sargent, M., Blanton, E., Allman, M. (2014). Modern Application Layer Transmission Patterns from a Transport Perspective. In: Faloutsos, M., Kuzmanovic, A. (eds) Passive and Active Measurement. PAM 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8362. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04918-2_14
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