Multiscale Traffic Processing Techniques for Network Inference and Control

Abstract

This final report overviews Rice University's accomplishments in the project Multiscale Traffic Processing Techniques for Network Inference and Control in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's, DARPA, Network Modeling & Simulation program. The overall goal of this project was the development of new traffic models, analysis techniques, and model-based processing algorithms for dealing with the type of bursty traffic that can saturate a link or network. Rice's new models are based on the powerful theory of multifractals and represent a step forward in traffic modeling technology. In addition to providing a better understanding of the traffic mechanisms that cause burstiness, they have integrated model fitting, synthesis, inference and prediction within one rigorous statistical framework. Their new models, designed to match salient traffic characteristics at many levels of abstraction and over a broad range of time scales, offer realism while remaining analytically and empirically tractable, statistically robust, and computationally efficient.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA444211

Entities

People

  • Edward Knightly
  • Richard G. Baraniuk
  • Robert D. Nowak
  • Rudolf Riedi

Organizations

  • Rice University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Algorithms
  • Computer Communications
  • Computer Networks
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Engineering
  • Mathematics
  • Measurement
  • Network Protocols
  • Network Science
  • Network Topology
  • Packet Loss
  • Random Variables
  • Signal Processing
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Stochastic Processes
  • Transport Protocols

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Networking
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Statistical inference.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Bayesian Inference