Lecture 6: Scaling and Dynamic Randomness; Poisson Processes

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Handouts

• Syllabus (PDF)
• Poisson Process: Lecture (PDF-3.4MB)
• Review: Introductory Part, Lectures 1-5 (PDF)
• Scaling and Centering (PDF-200KB)
• Whitt’s Book (PDF-1MB)
• Dynamic Randomness (PDF-140KB)
• Lecture 6: Web Summary (PDF-4.1MB)

Related Materials

Whitt’s Slides (PDF-600KB)

The Failure of Poisson Modeling, By Paxson and Floyd (PDF-2MB)

Internet Traffic Tends Toward Poisson and Independent as the Load Increases, By Cao, Cleveland, Lin and Sun (PDF-244KB)

A Nonstationary Poisson View of Internet Traffic, By Karagiannis, Molle, Faloutsos and Broido (PDF-3MB)

How Competition Can Generate Poisson Arrivals, By Lariviere and Van-Mieghem (PDF-320KB)

Traffic Delays at Toll Booths, By Leslie C. Edie (PDF-1.09MB)

The Best Linear Unbiased Estimator for Continuation of a Function, By Goldberg, Ritov and Mandelbaum (PDF-363KB)

Characterizing Normal Operation of a Web Server: Application to Workload Forecasting and Problem Detection, By Hellerstein, Zhang and Shahabuddin (PDF-273KB)

Reading Packet for Dynamic Randomness (Link)

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