Patent Document ID: 9438501
Application ID: 11465851
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A network traffic generation method comprising: defining multiple, different scales in an n-state Markov modified Poisson process (MMPP) model to accommodate a full characteristic response of a modeled traffic scenario; organizing different transition probabilities into a probability transition matrix correlating different transition probabilities with respectively different states of the MMPP model, the matrix responding to a desired traffic pattern by producing a selected one of a multiplicity of transition windows for use in generating real-time network traffic; submitting a traffic pattern to the matrix in order to receive a corresponding one of the transition windows; determining a state from the corresponding one of multiplicity of transition windows; computing an inter-packet time according to the determined; and, generating and transmitting packets utilizing the computed inter-packet time in a multi-scale, multi-window network traffic generator executing in memory by a processor of a server host and configured to generate packets emulating the self-similar nature of network traffic.