Cluster processes: A natural language for network traffic

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 2229-2244

  Hohn, Nicolas ^a   Veitch, Darryl ^a   Abry, Patrice ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Internet data; Long range dependence; Multifractals; Point processes; Scaling; Time series analysis; Traffic modeling; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DATA PROCESSING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

TRANSPORT CONTROL PROTOCOL (TCP);

TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

EID: 0042665345     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2003.814460     Document Type: Article

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