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What is Hurst Parameter

Chapter 68
Encyclopedia of Internet Technologies and Applications
A qualitative measure of selfsimilarity related to the scaling parameter a defined for long-range dependent processes.
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Scaling Properties of Network Traffic
David Rincón (Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain) and Sebastià Sallent (Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 7
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-993-9.ch068
Abstract
The availability of good stochastic models of network traffic is the key to developing protocols and services. A precise statistical characterization of packet interarrival time, size distribution, and connection arrival rate help network engineers to design network equipment and evaluate its performance.
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Chapter 44
Modeling IP Traffic Behavior through Markovian Models
It is an index that quantifies the self-similarity degree. In fact, similarity characteristics of self-similar processes with stationary increments depend only on this parameter.
Published in Chapter: Modeling IP Traffic Behavior through Markovian Models; From: Encyclopedia of Internet Technologies and Applications
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