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This work was supported in part by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (N00600-93-C-2481, F30602-95-C-0014), the National Science Foundation (CDA 0401156), California MICRO, the AT& Foundation, Digital Equipment Corporation, Exabyte, Hewlett Packard, Intel, IBM, Microsoft, Mitsubishi, Siemens Corporation, Sun Microsystems, and Xerox. Anderson was also supported by a National Science Foundation Presidential Faculty Fellowship. Yoshikawa is supported by a National Science Foundation Fellowship. The authors can be contacted at {chad, bnc, eastham, vahdat, tea, culler}.berkeley.edu.

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This assumption holds for many widely-used Internet services such as HTTP, FTP, and Web searching services.

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https://www.netscape.com/comprod/mirror/client_download.html

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We were unable to take measurements for more than 16 simultaneous clients making requests to a single server because the FTP server would not allow more than 16 simultaneous file retrievals. We plan to investigate this limitation further.