Source Traffic Characterization for Thin Client Based Office Applications
Barbara Emmert, Andreas Binzenhöfer, Daniel Schlosser, and Markus Weiss.
Research Report 406
Abstract
A thin client is a small network computer which is used as a
remote screen visualizing the output of software applications
running on a central server. To provide a seamless service to
thin client users the network connection between the client and
the server must be dimensioned properly. In this paper we
therefore characterize the traffic generated by different types of
thin client users when working with popular office applications
like Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint. We analyze the traffic
patterns measured in our testbed environment and thus provide a
basis for subsequent research studies as well as for
administrators to estimate the amount and the characteristics of
user generated traffic.