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What is Bursty

Chapter 38
Encyclopedia of Internet Technologies and Applications
We say that Internet traffic is bursty in order to explain that the bandwidth used by an IP flow is very irregular. It can go from 1 Mb to 10 Mb in one second. It is closely linked to the concept of sporadicity, which is the ratio of the peak rate and the mean rate of a flow. It reflects the on-off nature of individual connections.
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Issues and Applications of Internet Traffic Modelling
Rachel Babiarz (France Telecom R&D Division, France) and Jean-Sebastien Bedo (France Telecom R&D Division, France)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 6
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-993-9.ch038
Abstract
Traffic modelling has always been the prior to numerous network engineering tasks like network planning or bandwidth yield management. It is still a huge research domain mainly based on advanced signal processing techniques. It can also help to better understand the underlying aspects of the usage of a telecommunication technology as well as to forecast its evolutions.
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