DocumentCode
1742793
Title
Self-similar and fractal nature of Internet traffic data
Author
Mansfield, G. ; Roy, T.K. ; Shiratori, N.
Author_Institution
Res. Inst. of Electr. Commun., Tohoku Univ., Sendai, Japan
fYear
2001
fDate
2001
Firstpage
227
Lastpage
231
Abstract
The Internet traffic being extremely variable and bursty in a wide range of time scales is usually characterised by a self-similarity parameter (β), which describes its statistics depending on the scales of resolution. We study the characteristics on some previous data and observe that it can have another parameter which is its fractal dimension (D)
Keywords
Internet; fractals; statistical analysis; telecommunication traffic; Internet traffic data; bursty traffic; fractal characteristics; fractal dimension; self-similarity parameter; statistics; variable traffic; Autocorrelation; Electronic mail; Floods; Fractals; Frequency; Internet; Laboratories; Predictive models; Statistics; Traffic control;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Information Networking, 2001. Proceedings. 15th International Conference on
Conference_Location
Beppu City, Oita
Print_ISBN
0-7695-0951-7
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICOIN.2001.905432
Filename
905432
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