The stretched exponential distribution of Internet media access patterns

Proceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 283-294

  Guo, Lei ^a   Tan, Enhua ^b   Chen, Songqing ^c   Xiao, Zhen ^d   Zhang, Xiaodong ^b  

^a YAHOO INC   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Modeling; Multimedia; Traffic analysis

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MODELS;

ANALYSIS AND MODELING; CLIENT-SERVER MODELS; INTERNET MEASUREMENT; MULTIMEDIA; PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATIONS; STRETCHED EXPONENTIAL; STRETCHED EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; TRAFFIC ANALYSIS;

PEER TO PEER NETWORKS;

EID: 57549112236     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1400751.1400789     Document Type: Conference Paper

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