This comprehensive text gives an interesting and useful blend of the mathematical,
probabilistic and statistical tools used in heavy-tail analysis. Heavy tails are characteristic of …

To alleviate the complex communication problems that arise as the number of on-chip
components increases, network-on-chip (NoC) architectures have been recently proposed …

We investigate design issues for access networks based on passive optical network
technology. A PON based on polling, with data encapsulated in Ethernet frames, possesses …

Summary This chapter describes Ethernet Passive Optical Networks (EPONs), an emerging
local subscriber access architecture that combines low cost point‐to‐multipoint fiber …

Since the identification of long-range dependence in network traffic ten years ago, its
consistent appearance across numerous measurement studies has largely discredited …

While in recent years backbone bandwidth has experienced substantial growth, little has
changed in the access network.“Last mile” still remains the bottleneck between a high …

Self-similarity and scaling phenomena have dominated Internet traffic analysis for the past
decade. With the identification of long-range dependence (LRD) in network traffic, the …

Because of its potential to... predict the unpredictable,... extreme value theory (EVT) and
methodology is currently receiving a great deal of attention from statistical and mathematical …

Because they incorporate both time-and event-driven dynamics, stochastic hybrid systems
(SHS) have become ubiquitous in a variety of fields, from mathematical finance to biological …

We propose a user model that explains the shape of the distribution of file sizes in local file
systems and in the World Wide Web. We examine evidence from 562 file systems, 38 web …