Zafer Sahinoglu and Sirin Tekinay, Self-similar traffic and network performance , IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 48-52, Jan. 1999. An immediate consequence of this study is the demonstration of the limitations or validity of conventional resource allocation methods in the presence of self-similar traffic. Nick Duffield has a number of additional publications dealing with long range dependence in network traffic. Amara Graps, Wavelet Page This is a very nice Web page that has links to all kinds of information on Wavelets.
Wavelets are a useful tool for analyzing self-similar behavior.