Response Time = Fint - Arrt + Tdelay
where,
Arrt is the arrival time of user request and
Fint is the finish time of user request and
Tdalay is the transmission delay.
However, Tdelay can be calculated as
Tdelay = Tlatency + Ttransfer
Here, Tlatency is the network latency and Ttransfer is the time taken to transfer the size of data of a single request (D) from source location to destination. Tlatency is taken from the latency matrix (after applying Poisson distribution on it for distributing it)held in the Internet characteristics
.
Ttransfer = D / Bwperuser
where Bwperuser = Bwtotal / N;
Bwtotal is the total available bandwidth (held in the Internet characteristics) and N is the number of user requests currently in transmission.