Self-similarity in world wide web traffic evidence and possible causes

Performance Evaluation Review

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 160-169

  Crovella, Mark E ^a   Bestavros, Azer ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DATA STRUCTURES; DATA TRANSFER; DATABASE SYSTEMS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MULTIPLEXING; USER INTERFACES; WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

CACHING; DOCUMENT SIZES; FILE TRANSFER; SELF SIMILARITY; WORLD WIDE WEB TRAFFIC;

TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

EID: 0030149554     PISSN: 01635999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/233008.233038     Document Type: Article

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