Improved estimation of the hurst parameter of long-range dependent traffic using the modified hadamard variance

IEEE International Conference on Communications

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 566-572

  Bregni, Stefano ^a,b   Jmoda, Luca ^b  

^a IEEE

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fractional brownian motion; Fractional noise; Internet; Long range dependence; Random walk; Self similarity; Traffic control (communication); Traffic model

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; INTERNET; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FRACTIONAL BROWNIAN MOTION; FRACTIONAL NOISE; LONG-RANGE DEPENDENCE; RANDOM WALK; SELF-SIMILARITY; TRAFFIC CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); TRAFFIC MODELS;

TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

EID: 42549132411     PISSN: 05361486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2006.254855     Document Type: Conference Paper

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