The Pareto or Truncated Pareto Distribution? Measurement-Based Modeling of Session Traffic for Wi-Fi Wireless Internet Access

Author

Chlebus, Edward ; Divgi, Gautam

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Illinois Inst. of Technol., Chicago, IL

fYear

2007

fDate

11-15 March 2007

Firstpage

3625

Lastpage

3630

Abstract

We have analyzed measurement traffic statistics for high-speed wireless Internet access sessions collected in a public nationwide Wi-Fi network. By ranking session lengths and traffic volumes we have found a law implying the truncated Pareto distribution. This finding is analogous to the relationship between Zipf´s law and the Pareto distribution. By applying this new law we have developed a model for key session traffic variables. It has been successfully validated by linear regression. Some empirical session traffic statistics have been given for reference.

Keywords

Pareto distribution; regression analysis; telecommunication traffic; wireless LAN; Wi-Fi network; Wi-Fi wireless Internet access; Zipf´s law; high-speed wireless Internet access sessions; linear regression; measurement traffic statistics; session traffic statistics; truncated Pareto distribution; Australia; Cities and towns; IP networks; Internet; Pareto analysis; Statistical distributions; Statistics; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2007.WCNC 2007. IEEE

Conference_Location

Kowloon

ISSN

1525-3511

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0658-7

Electronic_ISBN

1525-3511

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCNC.2007.664

Filename

4224909