Self-similarity in World Wide Web Traffic Evidence and Possible Causes

SIGMETRICS 1996 - Proceedings of the 1996 ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages 160-169

  Crovella, Mark E ^a   Bestavros, Azer ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

DEPENDENCE STRUCTURES; FILE TRANSFERS; NETWORK TRAFFIC; SELF SIMILAR TRAFFIC MODEL; SELF-SIMILARITIES; UNDERLYING DISTRIBUTION; USER'S PREFERENCES; WEB DOCUMENT; WEB TRAFFIC; WIDE-AREA TRAFFIC;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84900638258     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/233013.233038     Document Type: Conference Paper

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