On the testing for alpha-stable distributions of network traffic
We demonstrate that the distribution of packet arrival and the distribution of byte arrival in Ethernet network traffic are the alpha-stable distributions. Our conclusions are supported by rigorous statistical analyses of one million packets measured from the actual network traffic and three different statistical methods, coupled with a discussion of the underlying definition and statistical properties of the alpha-stable distribution and related theories of statistical methods. At last, we discuss the future research work based on the results of this paper (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
alpha-stable distribution communication telecommunication networks network modeling