Matt Sargent, Ethan Blanton, Mark Allman. Modern Application Layer Transmission Patterns from a Transport Perspective, Passive and Active Measurement Conference, March 2014.
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Abstract:

We aim to broadly study the ways that modern applications use the underlying protocols and networks. Such an understanding is necessary when designing and optimizing lower-layer protocols. Traditionally---as prior work shows---applications have been well represented as bulk transfers, often preceded by application-layer handshaking. Recent suggestions posit that application evolution has eclipsed this simple model, and a typical pattern is now a series of transactions over a single transport layer connection. In this initial study we examine application transmission patterns via packet traces from two networks to better understand the ways that modern applications use TCP.

BibTeX:

@inproceedings{SBA14,
    author    =        "Matt Sargent and Ethan Blanton and Mark Allman",
    title     =        "{Modern Application Layer Transmission Patterns from a Transport Perspective}",
    booktitle =        "Passive and Active Measurement Conference",
    year      =        2014,
    month     =        mar,
}