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Recent statistical work on traffic measurements are showing traditional models to be poor descriptors of what really goes on for WAN traffic. Here we discuss briefly the shortcoming of those models and illustrate some theoretical features of possibly more realistic models.
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Marco Isopi received his PhD in Mathematics from the Courant Institute. He teaches Probability at the University of Rome “la Sapienza”.
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Isopi, M. (1999). Self-similarity in wide-area network traffic. In: de Marchis, G., Sabella, R. (eds) Optical Networks: Design and Modelling. ONDM 1998. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 19. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35398-2_13
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