Modeling web requests: A multifractal approach

Computer Networks

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 211-226

  Balamash, Abdullah ^a   Krunz, Marwan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Multifractals; Self similarity; Stack distance; Web caching; WWW modeling

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CACHE MEMORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

WEB CACHING;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 0041387392     PISSN: 13891286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1389-1286(03)00260-3     Document Type: Article

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