Wide-area traffic: The failure of poisson modeling

Proceedings of the Conference on Communications Architectures, Protocols and Applications, SIGCOMM 1994

Volumn , Issue , 1994, Pages 257-268

  Paxson, Vern ^a   Floyd, Sally ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

PACKET ARRIVALS; POISSON MODEL; POISSON PROCESS; REMOTE LOGIN; SELF-SIMILARITIES; TCP SESSION ARRIVAL; TRAFFIC STUDIES; WIDE-AREA TRAFFIC;

INTERNET PROTOCOLS;

EID: 85013350011     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/190314.190338     Document Type: Conference Paper

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