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- Wednesday, November 16, 1983.
Prof. P.D. Amer of the University of Delaware will
speak on ``Generating Artificial Traffic Over a Local
Area Network Using Random Number Generators''.
TIME: 10:30 AM
ROOM: MC 6091A
ABSTRACT
Effective testing and performance evaluation of a local
area computer network requires the ability to generate
artificial traffic. This in turn requires algorithms
for generating random number sequences. Several random
number generation algorithms have been considered for
emulating traffic over NBSNET, a local area computer
network at the National Bureau of Standards. The algo-
rithms are evaluated in light of certain time, space,
and programming constraints dictated by NBS's applica-
tion. The table-based method, using an additive uni-
form random number generator for selection from the
table, was determined to be a satisfactory method con-
sidering NBSNET's constraints, and is being used to
generate artificial traffic for continuing local net-
work research experimentation.
November 9, 1983