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Fractal models for data traffic

Mathematical models used successfully to manage telephone systems don't apply to data-transmitting networks, where the duration and rate of information transfer vary more widely.

 

References:

Willinger, W., and V. Paxson. 1998. Where mathematics meets the Internet. Notices of the American Mathematical Society 45(September):961.

 

Further Readings:

Peterson, I. 1997. Internet congestion stirs up data storms. Science News 152(July 26):53.

______. 1996. Trails of the wandering albatross. Science News 150(Aug. 17):104.

 

Sources:

Vern Paxson
Network Research Group
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley, CA 94720

Walter Willinger
AT&T Labs-Research
Room C284, Building 103
180 Park Avenue
Florham Park, NJ 07932-0971
Web site: http://www.research.att.com/~walter/

From Science News, Vol. 154, No. 16, October 17, 1998, p. 255.
Copyright Ó 1998 by Science Service.

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