Modeling and characterization of large-scale Wi-Fi traffic in public hot-spots

Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2921-2929

  Ghosh, Amitabha ^a   Jana, Rittwik ^b   Ramaswami, V ^b   Rowland, Jim ^b   Shankaranarayanan, N K ^b  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COFFEE SHOPS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; GENERALIZED LINEAR MODEL; HEAVY-TAILED DISTRIBUTION; HOTSPOTS; MODELING FRAMEWORKS; NONSTATIONARY; PHASE TYPE DISTRIBUTIONS; POISSON PROCESS; POISSON REGRESSION; QUEUING MODELS; STATISTICAL CLUSTERING; TEST DATA; TRAFFIC VOLUMES;

ALGEBRA; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

WI-FI;

EID: 79960855369     PISSN: 0743166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INFCOM.2011.5935132     Document Type: Conference Paper

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