Modeling Network Traffic with Multifractal Behavior

Telecommunication Systems

Volumn 24, Issue 2-4, 2003, Pages 339-362

  Nogueira, António ^a   Salvador, Paulo ^a   Valadas, Rui ^a   Pacheco, António ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Conservative cascade; Fractional Gaussian noise; L system; Markov modulated Poisson process; Multifractal; Multiscaling; Self similar; Traffic modeling

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); INTERNET; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; QUALITY OF SERVICE; STATISTICS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

CONSERVATIVE CASCADE; L-SYSTEM; MARKOV MODULATED POISSON PROCESS; MULTIFRACTAL; MULTISCALING; TRAFFIC MODELING;

TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

EID: 0347090476     PISSN: 10184864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026183318200     Document Type: Article

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