Traffic Modeling For Telecommunications Networks As new communications services evolve, professionals must create better models to predict system performance

IEEE Communications Magazine

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 70-81

  Frost, Victor S ^a   Melamed, Benjamin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b Performance Analysis Department C & C Research Laboratories NEC USA Inc ^*  (United States)

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EID: 84939061075     PISSN: 01636804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/35.267444     Document Type: Article

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