Convergence of scaled renewal processes and a packet arrival model

Bernoulli

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 671-703

  Gaigalas, Raimundas ^a   Kaj, Ingemar ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Fractional Brownian motion; Heavy tails; Long range dependence; Renewal processes; Weak convergence

Indexed keywords

EID: 4944232493     PISSN: 13507265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3150/bj/1066223274     Document Type: Article

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