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On TCP and Self-Similar Traffic
Overview This paper re-examines the same TCP trace that was used by Veres et al. to claim that TCP creates self-similar traffic. A careful reassessment of their data analysis shows that this claim is not justified and suggests that the TCP trace in question is not consistent with (asymptotic second-order) self-similarity or Long-Range Dependence (LRD). The reasons are illustrated that led to the claim in and provide some practical guidelines for assessing a statistical characteristic of trace data such as LRD that is defined in strictly asymptotic terms. The conclusion is in full agreement with the findings obtained from analyzing a much longer TCP trace and with analytical results derived from a detailed Markovian model of TCP.
| Publisher | Reed Elsevier | File Format | |
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| Date Published | October 2004 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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