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In [13], real-time measurements from LANs, variable-bit-rate video sources, ISDN control-channels, the World Wide Web and other communication systems have shown that traffic exhibits a behaviour of self-similar nature. In this paper, we give new lower bounds to buffer-overflow and cell-loss probabilities for an ATM queue system with a self-similar cell input traffic and finite buffer. The bounds are better than those obtained in [20], in an important region of parameters. As in [20], they decay hyperbolically with buffer size, when the latter goes to infinity. However, in some region, a factor which accompanies the decay is higher in this paper than in [20].
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Tsybakov, B., Georganas, N.D. Overflow and loss probabilities in a finite ATM buffer fed by self-similar traffic. Queueing Systems 32, 233–256 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1019143221956
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