Title :
The Pareto or Truncated Pareto Distribution? Measurement-Based Modeling of Session Traffic for Wi-Fi Wireless Internet Access
Author :
Chlebus, Edward ; Divgi, Gautam
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Illinois Inst. of Technol., Chicago, IL
Abstract :
We have analyzed measurement traffic statistics for high-speed wireless Internet access sessions collected in a public nationwide Wi-Fi network. By ranking session lengths and traffic volumes we have found a law implying the truncated Pareto distribution. This finding is analogous to the relationship between Zipf´s law and the Pareto distribution. By applying this new law we have developed a model for key session traffic variables. It has been successfully validated by linear regression. Some empirical session traffic statistics have been given for reference.
Keywords :
Pareto distribution; regression analysis; telecommunication traffic; wireless LAN; Wi-Fi network; Wi-Fi wireless Internet access; Zipf´s law; high-speed wireless Internet access sessions; linear regression; measurement traffic statistics; session traffic statistics; truncated Pareto distribution; Australia; Cities and towns; IP networks; Internet; Pareto analysis; Statistical distributions; Statistics; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; Wireless networks;
Conference_Titel :
Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2007.WCNC 2007. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Kowloon
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0658-7
Electronic_ISBN :
1525-3511
DOI :
10.1109/WCNC.2007.664
