Testing α-stable processes in capturing the queuing behavior of broadband teletraffic

Signal Processing

Volumn 82, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1861-1872

  Garroppo, Rosario G ^a   Giordano, Stefano ^a   Pagano, Michele ^a   Procissi, Gregorio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

stable processes; Heavy tails; Queuing behavior; Self similarity; Traffic modelling

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUEUEING THEORY;

BROADBAND TELETRAFFIC;

TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

EID: 0036887827     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1684(02)00316-X     Document Type: Article

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