• DocumentCode
    752486
  • Title

    On the "Bursty Factor" as a Measure for Characterizing Data Traffic

  • Author

    Ephremides, A.

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
  • Volume
    26
  • Issue
    11
  • fYear
    1978
  • fDate
    11/1/1978 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1791
  • Lastpage
    1792
  • Abstract
    It is argued that the "Bursty Factor" is not a new measure for characterizing data traffic in that it does not really introduce a new concept of "burstiness," and that it is equally non-inherent a characteristic of the data source as the peak-to-average ratio or the duty cycle.
  • Keywords
    Data communications; Bandwidth; Bit rate; Channel capacity; Delay effects; Filters; Noise figure; Noise level; Noise measurement; Peak to average power ratio; Signal to noise ratio;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Communications, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0090-6778
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TCOM.1978.1094001
  • Filename
    1094001