Policing and Statistical Multiplexing of Self-Similar Sources

In this paper, we describe an envelope process for the fractal Brownian motion (fBm) process. We investigate the time scale of interest of queuing systems fed by a fBm process. We also introduce the Fractal Leaky Bucket, a novel policing mechanism which is able to accurately monitor self-similar sources. Moreover, we show expressions for computing the equivalent bandwidth of an aggregate of heterogeneous self-similar sources.

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