Hi Monia, 'Burst' is a very broad term. It would be useful to clarify to what you are referring.. I can think of a few possibilities:
- Data Transmission: The length of an uninterrupted flow of information. - Traffic Engineering: The ability for traffic to temporarily exceed it's allocated (average) bandwidth share. - Internal Event: A backup (scheduled) or a server failure (adhoc) altering traffic patterns. - External Event: Marketing campaign / event coinciding with increased traffic towards say, a website. Perhaps -> Over what period of time is a 'Burst'..? Cheers, Heath On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Monia Ghobadi <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Nanog members, > > I am a PhD student at University of Toronto and I am working on traffic > burstiness in data centers. In the following I am asking two questions to > raise motivation for my research. I appreciate if anyone could answer these > questions to their best knowledge. *The questions are:* > > 1) ‘Bursty’ is a word with no agreed meaning. How do you define a bursty > traffic? > 2) If you are involved with a data center, is your data center traffic > bursty? > -- If yes, > -- Do you think that it will be useful to supress the burstiness > in your traffic? (For example by pacing the traffic into shorter bursts) > -- If no: > -- Are you already supressing the burstiness? How? > -- Would you anticipate the traffic becoming burstier in the > future? > > Thanks, > Monia > > ------------------ > Monia Ghobadi > PhD Student > University of Toronto > http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~monia/ >
