ABSTRACT

Network traffic has fractal properties such as impulsiveness, selfsimilarity, and long-range dependence over several time scales, from milliseconds to minutes. These features have motivated the development of new traffic models and traffic control algorithms. This book presents a new statespace model for Internet traffic, which is based on a finite-dimensional representation of the Autoregressive Fractionally Integrated Moving Average (ARFIMA) random process. The modeling via Autoregressive (AR) processes is also investigated.

chapter 1|23 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|21 pages

The fractal nature of network traffic

chapter 4|36 pages

State-space modeling

chapter 5|24 pages

Modeling of Internet traffic

chapter 6|1 pages

Conclusions