Self-Similarity and Heavy-Tail of ICMP Traffic

In the last two decades, an enormous increase in empirical studies from the view of different network layer and from a variety of different networks has been seen. However ICMP traffic of Internet is ignored all along. In view of this, the contribution of this paper aims at filling such a gap in studying self-similarity and heavy-tail in ICMP traffic. Five different type DATA sets are investigated-including WAN data as well as LAN data, and including ICMPv4 data as well as ICMPv6 data. Our central results are the following: Firstly, ICMP packets arrival process is Long-Range Dependent and Self-Similar. Secondly, interarrival time for ICMP packets arrival process is Heavy-Tailed.