TY - GEN
T1 - A comparative study of different heavy tail index estimators of the flow size from sampled data
AU - Loiseau, Patrick
AU - Gonçalves, Paulo
AU - Vicat-Blanc, Pascale Primet
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright 2007 ICST.
PY - 2007/10/17
Y1 - 2007/10/17
N2 - In this article, we address the problem of estimating the tail parameter of a flow size distribution from sampled packet traffic. Based on synthetic data, we perform a systematic comparison of several estimators proposed in the literature. In the course, we propose a variant to an existing method which takes into account some statistical a priori on the expected distribution. This adapted estimator shows a significantly improved performance, as compared to the others.
AB - In this article, we address the problem of estimating the tail parameter of a flow size distribution from sampled packet traffic. Based on synthetic data, we perform a systematic comparison of several estimators proposed in the literature. In the course, we propose a variant to an existing method which takes into account some statistical a priori on the expected distribution. This adapted estimator shows a significantly improved performance, as compared to the others.
KW - Estimation
KW - Grid
KW - Heavy tail distribution
KW - Packet sampling
U2 - 10.4108/gridnets.2007.2268
DO - 10.4108/gridnets.2007.2268
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:70849102878
T3 - GridNets 2007 - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Networks for Grid Applications
BT - GridNets 2007 - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Networks for Grid Applications
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 1st International Conference on Networks for Grid Applications, GridNets 2007
Y2 - 17 October 2007 through 19 October 2007
ER -