Virginia Tech, April 1999. Contains statistical models of WWW traffic parameters such as arrival times, file sizes, file types, and locality of reference. Analyzes server log files by partitioning requests in server log files by time zone, and observing similarities in accesses from different time zones. Characterizes Web response time and examines the effect of proxy caching on response time. G. Abdulla, A. H. Nayfeh, E. A. Fox, A Realistic Model of Request Arrival Rate to Caching Proxies, submitted for publication.
Analysis shows strong periodic autocorrelation.
New approach is introduced to model traces by a combination of Fourier and statistical analysis. Last modified on 3 August 1998.