Traffic manipulation on a computer network

摘要

In order to improve throughput on an Ethernet-based network 10, a traffic manipulation device 12 is used to exploit the network's collision properties by causing deliberate collisions. A data packet is introduced so as to intentionally collide with a particular category of packet in order to kill the packet. This exploits existing back-off strategies such as shrinking-probability-retry in order to break up "structure" in the data traffic caused by long bursts of packets, thus returning the traffic on the network to a randomised state which allows greater throughput and is more easily monitored.