The structural cause of file size distributions

IEEE International Workshop on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 361-370

  Downey, A B ^a  

^a WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

File sizes; Lognormal distribution; Long tailed distribution; Self similarity

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SERVERS; UNIX; WORLD WIDE WEB;

LOCAL FILE SYSTEMS; LOGNORMAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

FILE ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0034822359     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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