Wavelets for the Analysis, Estimation, and Synthesis of Scaling Data.

The presence of scaling behavior in telecommunications traffic is striking not only in its ubiquity, appearing in almost every kind of packet data, but also in the wide range of scales over which the scaling holds. It is rare indeed that a physical phenomenon obeys a consistent law over so many orders of magnitude. This may well extend further, as increases in network bandwidth over time progressively "reveal" higher scales. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]