Building Reproducible Video Streaming Traffic Generators

Abstract

Video streaming traffic dominates Internet traffic. However, there is a dearth of tools to generate such traffic on emulation-based testbeds. In this paper we present tools to create representative and reproducible video streaming traffic to evaluate the next generation of traffic classification, Quality of Service (QoS) algorithms and traffic engineering systems. We discuss 27 different combinations of streaming video traffic types in this preliminary work, and illustrate the diversity of network-level dynamics in these protocols.