<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><font face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Dear E2E members,</span></font></span><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">

<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Arial">I am a PhD student at University of Toronto and I am working on traffic burstiness in data centers. In the following I am asking two questions to raise motivation for my research. I appreciate if anyone could answer these questions to their best knowledge. </span><b style="font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">The questions are:</span></b></span></div>

<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Arial"></span><br>

<span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">1) ‘Bursty’ is a word with no agreed meaning. How do you define a bursty traffic?</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">2) If you are involved with a data center, is your data center traffic bursty?</span><br>

<span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">    -- If yes,</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">         -- Do you think that it will be useful to supress the burstiness in your traffic? (For example by <span class="il">pacing</span> the traffic into shorter bursts)</span><br>

<span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">    -- If no:</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">         -- Are you already supressing the burstiness? How?</span><br>

<span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">         -- Would you anticipate the traffic becoming burstier in the future?</span><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Arial"></span><br>

<font face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Thanks,</span></font><br><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Monia</span><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Arial"></span><br>

<span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">------------------</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Monia Ghobadi</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">PhD Student</span><br>

<span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">University of Toronto</span><br><a href="http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~monia/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;;font-weight:bold"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~monia/</span></a></span></div>