Alpha-stable Distribution Property of Network Traffic
Xiaohu Ge · Telecommunication Engineering · 2004
Recen empirical studies indicate that the network traffic is multi-fractal in nature. Due to the self-similarity and burst of the traffic, the traditional models based on the Poisson distribution are stale in the characterization of network traffic. In this paper the anthors analyze the essence of network traffic and carry out experiments on practical traffic data sequence. These analytical results prove that traffic throughput can be accurately modeled by alpha-stable distribution. Moreover, comparison with other distribution models shows that alpha-stable distribution has more advantages in capturing nature of network traffic.