Heavy-Tailed Probability Distributions in the World Wide Web Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:5973579, abstract = {The explosion of the World Wide Web as a medium for information dissemination has made it important to understand its characteristics, in particular the distribution of its file sizes. This paper presents evidence that a number of file size distributions in the Web exhibit heavy tails, including files requested by users, files transmitted through the network, transmission durations of files, and files stored on servers. In addition, we argue that because of the presence of caching in the Web, the size distribution of transmitted files is primarily determined by the distribution of files available in the Web, and is relatively insensitive to the distribution of files requested by users. Finally, we discuss some of the implications of heavy-tailed transmission durations and relate these results to selfsimilarity in network traffic. 1. Introduction The World Wide Web was designed and initially developed at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (then called CERN) as a distribution ...}, author = {Crovella, Mark E. and Taqqu, Murad S. and Bestavros, Azer}, booktitle = {In A Practical Guide To Heavy Tails, chapter 1}, citeulike-article-id = {5973579}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.56.2930}, keywords = {1998, network, statistics, web}, pages = {3--26}, posted-at = {2009-10-20 11:45:06}, priority = {0}, title = {Heavy-Tailed Probability Distributions in the World Wide Web}, url = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.56.2930}, volume = {1}, year = {1998} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:5973579 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5973579 N2 - The explosion of the World Wide Web as a medium for information dissemination has made it important to understand its characteristics, in particular the distribution of its file sizes. This paper presents evidence that a number of file size distributions in the Web exhibit heavy tails, including files requested by users, files transmitted through the network, transmission durations of files, and files stored on servers. In addition, we argue that because of the presence of caching in the Web, the size distribution of transmitted files is primarily determined by the distribution of files available in the Web, and is relatively insensitive to the distribution of files requested by users. Finally, we discuss some of the implications of heavy-tailed transmission durations and relate these results to selfsimilarity in network traffic. 1. Introduction The World Wide Web was designed and initially developed at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (then called CERN) as a distribution ... EP - 26 TI - Heavy-Tailed Probability Distributions in the World Wide Web VL - 1 T2 - In A Practical Guide To Heavy Tails, chapter 1 SP - 3 KW - 1998 KW - network KW - statistics KW - web AU - Crovella, Mark AU - Taqqu, Murad AU - Bestavros, Azer PY - 1998/// UR - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.56.2930 ER -