The 95-percentile method is used widely for billing ISPs and websites. In this work, we characterize important aspects of the 95-percentile method using a large set of traffic traces. We first study how the 95-percentile depends on the aggregation window size. We observe that the computed value often follows a noisy decreasing trend along a convex curve as the window size increases. We provide ...

Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/about/terms.html. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your perso...

This paper considers the application of method of percentile matching available in statistical theory of estimation for estimating the parameters involved in uncertainty distributions. An empirical study has been carried out to compare the performance of the proposed method with the method of moments and the method of least squares considered by Wang and Peng (J. Uncertainty Analys. Appl. 2, (2...

The purpose of this study was to examine the use of percentile schedules as a method of quantifying the shaping procedure in an educational setting. We compared duration of task engagement during baseline measurements for 4 students to duration of task engagement during a percentile schedule. As a secondary purpose, we examined the influence on shaping of manipulations of the number of observat...

External sorting is frequently used b>relational database s!-stems for building indexes on tables, ordered retrieval, duplicate elimination, joins, subqueries. grouping, and aggregation; it would be quite beneficial to parallelize this function. Previous parallel external sorting algorithms found in the database literature used a sequential merge as the final stage of the parallel sort. This re...

Multi-homing is a technology used by Internet Service Provider (ISP) to connect to the Internet via multiple networks. This connectivity enhances the network reliability and service quality of the ISP. However, using multi-networks may imply multiple costs on the ISP. To make full use of the underlying networks with minimum cost, a routing strategy is requested by ISPs. Of course, this optimal ...

Figure S1: Relative initiation rate of mutation compared to wild type. The x-axis is the mutation position, each row in the y-axis is a different transcript. The scale shows values from the 2.5 percentile to the 97.5 percentile. In the graph, values lower than the 2.5 percentile are given the minimum green color and values above the 97.5 percentile are given the maximum red color. Blue indicate...

In this paper, we consider the estimation of the unknown parameter of the scaled logistic distribution on the basis of record values. The maximum likelihood method does not provide an explicit estimator for the scale parameter. In this article, we present a simple method of deriving an explicit estimator by approximating the likelihood function. Bayes estimator is obtained using importance samp...

In the linear regression models with AR (1) error structure when collinearity exists, stochastic linear restrictions or modifications of biased estimators (including Liu estimators) can be used to reduce the estimated variance of the regression coefficients estimates. In this paper, the combination of the biased Liu estimator and stochastic linear restrictions estimator is considered to overcom...