[R] Simulating web requests

[Rui Barradas]

Hello,

Homework?
There's a no homework rule but see inline.

Em 27-06-2012 10:20, Mohan Radhakrishnan escreveu:
> Hi,
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>           I am looking for some assistance with these requirements.  We
> are trying to simulate web requests to hit a web applications. Let's
> assume I have a url to hit that requires a username and password.
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> 1.	These web requests should have exponential inter arrival times.

Poisson process. See any introductory text.
And see the help page for ?rexp

> 2.	Generate self-similar traffic. I am not very sure about the
> properties of this traffic. Is Variance Time plot used for analyzing if
> the data received from this simulation is self-similar ?

See the argument 'rate' in the help page above. Set it to a single value.

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> How does R help in creating a program that can generate this traffic ?
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Simply by making of this a straightforward to program an assignment.

Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas
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> Thanks,
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> Mohan
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