On the Self-Similar Nature of Ethernet Traffic (Extended Version)

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 1-15

  Leland, Will E ^a   Taqqu, Murad S ^b   Wilson, Daniel V ^a  

^a TELCORDIA TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTALS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PACKET SWITCHING; STATISTICAL METHODS; TELECOMMUNICATION CONTROL; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; VOICE/DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BURSTINESS; ETHERNET TRAFFIC; FRACTAL LIKE BEHAVIOR; HURST PARAMETER; POISSON RELATED MODELS; SELF SIMILAR NATURE;

TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

EID: 0028377540     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: 15582566     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/90.282603     Document Type: Article

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