Abstract

There is much experimental evidence that network traffic processes exhibit ubiquitous properties of selfsimilarity and long range dependence (LRD), i.e., of correlations over a wide range of time scales. However, there is still considerable debate about how to model such processes and about their impact on network and application performance. In this paper, we argue that much recent modeling work has failed to consider the impact of two important parameters, namely the finite range of time scales of interest in performance evaluation and prediction problems, and the first-order statistics such as the marginal distribution of the process.

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