The estimation of stable distribution parameters from teletraffic data

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 865-870

  Bates, Stephen ^a   McLaughlin, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Stable distributions; Teletraffic modeling

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND NETWORKS; FUNCTIONS; IMAGE COMPRESSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

CENTRAL LIMIT THEOREM; NORROS MODEL; SHAPIRO-WILK TEST; STABLE DISTRIBUTIONS; TELETRAFFIC MODELING;

DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 0033897414     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/78.824681     Document Type: Article

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