Variable heavy tails in Internet traffic
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This paper studies tails of the size distribution of Internet data flows and their “heaviness”. Data analysis motivates the concepts of moderate, far and extreme tails for understanding the richness of information available in the data. The data analysis also motivates a notion of “variable tail index”, which leads to a generalization of existing theory for heavy-tail durations leading to long-range dependence.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Perform. Eval.
دوره 58 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2004