Distribution-free confidence intervals for measurement of effective bandwidth
László Györfi, András Rácz, Ken R. Duffy, John T. Lewis, Fergal Toomey · Journal of Applied Probability · 2000
Hoeffding's inequality can be used in conjunction with the declared parameters of a traffic source, such as its peak rate, to obtain confidence intervals for measurements of the traffic's effective bandwidth. We describe a variety of interval-estimation procedures based on this idea, designed to provide differing degrees of robustness against non-stationarity. We also discuss how to compute confidence intervals for the effective bandwidth of an aggregate of traffic sources.