Skip to content

Home

Jump to bottom
Hayley Howard edited this page Mar 15, 2018 · 23 revisions

Welcome to the Generator wiki!

P1: Overall purpose and functionality of the generator

Modules:

Parameters:

The parameters for the generator are contained in the generator configuration class.

  • Business_Hours: The number of hours you want to designate as business hours, or high-traffic hours. This is represented as an integer value. For example, if business hours are from 8am-5pm, then the value for Business_Hours would be 9.
    • Default value: 6
  • Work_Hour_Start: The time at which work hours begin. This is represented as an integer value. For example, if business hours start at 8am, then the value for Work_Hour_Start would be 8.
    • Default value: 8
  • Days: The number of days for which to generate traffic byte counts. This is represented as an integer value. For example, if a user wants to generate traffic for 2 weeks, the value for Days would be 14.
    • Default value: 7
  • Start_Date: The date to begin the traffic generation. This is represented as a Python datetime date object, with the format YYYY-MM-DD.
    • Default value: datetime.date.today() - today's date
  • Low_Max: The maximum number of bytes generated during low-traffic periods. A given byte count generated during the low-traffic periods will never be larger than this value. This is represented as an integer value.
    • Default value: 1.25x1500000
  • Low_Min: The minimum number of bytes generated during low-traffic periods. A given byte count generated during the low-traffic periods will never be smaller than this value. This is represented as an integer value.
    • Default value: 0
  • High_Max: The maximum number of bytes generated during high-traffic periods. A given byte count generated during the high-traffic periods will never be larger than this value. This is represented as an integer value.
    • Default value: 1.23x10000000
  • High_Min: The minimum number of bytes generated during high-traffic periods. A given byte count generated during the high-traffic periods will never be smaller than this value. This is represented as an integer value.
    • Default value: 0
  • Shape: The shape parameter of the Weibull distribution function in particular. This is represented as a decimal or integer value.
    • Default value: .5
  • Scale: The scale applied to the Weibull distribution. Each Weibull-generated value will be multiplied by the scale to produce a byte count value. This is represented as an integer value.
    • Default value: 1000000
  • Func_Type: The distribution function used to generate the traffic byte counts. To specify this value, the user enters a string with the name of the function in lower-case letters (e.g. "weibull").
    • Default value: "poisson"
  • Database: The name of the database the generator will feed its generated byte counts into. This is represented as a string value.
    • Default value: "generated-data"

The generator's required parameters for use depend on the distribution function chosen.

The current implemented distribution functions and their parameters are as follows:

Output Details

output details here

Sample Script

sample script here

Clone this wiki locally