Title
Self-similar and fractal nature of internet traffic
Abstract
The self‐similar bursty Internet traffic is usually characterized by the Hurst parameter (H). Such a process is also seen to possess fractal characteristics in time described by a parameter (β), with multifractals in most cases. We observe that these highly stochastic traffics have fractals in flow density too, described by a fractal dimension (D), also with the possibiliy of multifractals as in the former. This requires another parameter for the description of Internet traffic, besides the usual self‐similarity parameter β or H and the different simulations or models worked out to understand the Internet traffic to reproduce the characteristics as found in the present work. We also find a notable self‐similarity feature of the autocorrelations in the data and its aggregates, in all the cases studied. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1002/nem.512
International Journal of Network Management
Keywords
Field
DocType
internet traffic,fractal dimension,hurst parameter
Statistical physics,Fractal analysis,Fractal dimension on networks,Fractal landscape,Fractal dimension,Computer science,Simulation,Hurst exponent,Fractal,Internet traffic,Distributed computing,The Internet
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
14
2
1099-1190
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
17
1.09
9
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Debasish Chakraborty17711.66
Ahmed Ashir2354.46
Takuo Suganuma334161.14
Glenn Mansfield-Keeni4348.44
T. K. Roy5171.09
Norio Shiratori6818137.59