Berkeley Multimedia, Interfaces and Graphics Seminar
Why Understanding Anything About the Internet is Painfully Hard
Wednesday April 28, 1999,
1:00-2:30 p.m. 405 Soda Hall
Please note the time frame of the seminar series has changed!!
Vern Paxson
AT&T Center for Internet Research at ICSI
The Internet poses immense challenges when attempting to measure, model,
analyze, or extend it. The underlying problems are that the network is
tremendously diverse, such that the notion of "typical" is rarely anything
but misleading; it grows explosively, and has been doing so for years; and
the traditional network modeling framework, based on Poisson assumptions of
independence or at most weak traffic correlations, lies in ruins, destroyed
by overwhelming measurement evidence. We sketch the fundamental causes of
these difficulties and some of the strategies researchers have devised for
coping with them.
The seminar is broadcast on the Internet Mbone. The addresses are video
224.2.163.7/57076 and audio 224.2.147.61/27202.
Sponsored by the Berkeley Multimedia Research Center
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Florissa Colina
Berkeley Multimedia Research Center (BMRC)
626 Soda Hall #1776
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-1776
Phone: (510) 643-0800 FAX: (510) 642-5615
Email: florissac@bmrc.berkeley.edu