
161Advanced Traffic Generation Features
source–destination trafc characteristics are dened through the following sub-
attributes and are shown in Figure 6.5:
• Initialization Time (seconds)—the time that elapses before the source
node starts generating requests. If there is no destination node dened for
this phase, then this attribute species the processing time at the source
node.
• Request Count—the number of requests sent from the source node to the
destination.
• Interrequest Time (seconds)—the amount of time elapsed between two
consecutive requests.
• Request Packet Size (bytes)—the size of the individual packet. Since
a request may consis ...