trewitt@MIASMA.STANFORD.EDU.UUCP (09/03/87)
I am trying to find out about people who are doing or have done research related to my own. Read on if you think you might have some pointers... When not working in the various network management activities, I am supposed to be writing a thesis describing the results of my studies of the Stanford Ethernet's behavior and performance. The particular areas that I am interested in are: micro-level behavior of networks/links interarrival times packet size distribution traffic volume behavior of routers (gateways) packet delay congestion macro-level behavior of the whole internetwork traffic matrices conclusions from this data suitablility of the topology for the presented load saturation point for routers performance as load increases performance as size/complexity increases Yes, I realize that this is a lot of stuff, and I don't expect to actually cover it all, but it's a starting point. What I am interested in finding out from the people on this list is to see if there has been published research on these topics based upon Internet experience. I realize that many of these parameters (such as saturation point:-) have been determined by actual experiment in the Arpanet, but has anyone actually written about it. [I suspect that people may be too busy fending off the aligators to actually write reports, but I can hope.] Thanks in advance, Glenn Trewitt If you can't reply to miasma.Stanford.EDU, try amadeus.Stanford.EDU or shasta.Stanford.EDU. -------