What is bursty traffic?

What does it mean?

How is it measured?
How is it related to LRD and the Hurst
parameter?
What are the implications for buffer
management in routers?
Don Smith
Department of Computer Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
smithfd@cs.unc.edu
20 seconds
1 second
300 seconds
100 1000 milliseconds
300 seconds
30 seconds
1.5 seconds
2 seconds
10 seconds
1.5 seconds
5 seconds
50 seconds
190 seconds
15 seconds 10 seconds
8 seconds
15 seconds
40 seconds
130 seconds
10 seconds
Is a single parameter, e.g., Hurst,
Is a single parameter, e.g., Hurst,
enough?
enough?