A cause of self-similarity in TCP traffic

International Journal of Communication Systems

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 603-617

  Fukuda, Kensuke ^a   Takayasu, Misako ^b   Takayasu, Hideki ^c  

^a NTT Network Innovation Laboratories   (Japan)

^b FUTURE UNIVERSITY HAKODATE   (Japan)

^c SONY COMPUTER SCIENCE LABORATORIES INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

Internet traffic; Phase transition; Self similarity; TCP flow control

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK CONTROL; FLOW MEASUREMENT; INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

FLOW DENSITY; INTERNET TRAFFIC; SELF-SIMILARITY; TCP FLOW CONTROL;

TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

EID: 23744500362     PISSN: 10745351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dac.722     Document Type: Article

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