Does the internet still demonstrate fractal nature?

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Networks, ICN 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 30-34

  Terdik, György ^a   Gyires, Tibor ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Burstiness; Fractal modeling; L vy flights; Long range dependence; Network traffic

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; BURSTINESS; COMMUNICATIONS PROTOCOLS; FRACTAL MODELING; HIGH-SPEED; IN-NETWORK; INTER-ARRIVAL TIME; INTERNET BACKBONE; INTERNET TRAFFIC; LEVY FLIGHTS; LINEAR FRACTALS; LONG-RANGE DEPENDENCE; NETWORK TRAFFIC; OPTICAL CONNECTION; PACKET LENGTH; POISSON MODEL; SECOND GENERATION; SELF-SIMILAR; SELF-SIMILAR PROCESS; SELF-SIMILARITY; TRAFFIC TRACES;

FRACTALS; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POISSON EQUATION;

INTERNET;

EID: 67650668371     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICN.2009.8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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