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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464482503321

Autore

de Lima Alexandre Barbosa

Titolo

Internet teletraffic modeling and estimation / / Alexandre Barbosa de Lima and José Roberto de Almeida Amazonas ; cover design by Fernando Freitas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Aalborg, Denmark : , : River Publishers, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

87-92982-94-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (186 p.)

Collana

River Publishers Series in Information Science and Technology

Disciplina

621.3851

Soggetti

Telecommunication - Traffic

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Tables""; ""List of Figures""; ""Preface""; ""List of acronyms and symbols""; ""1 Introduction""; ""1.1 Objectives of telecommunications carriers""; ""1.2 Traffic characteristics""; ""1.3 Questions and contributions""; ""1.4 Time series basic concepts""; ""1.4.1 Time series examples""; ""1.4.2 Operators notation""; ""1.4.3 Stochastic processes""; ""1.4.4 Time seriesmodeling""; ""2 The fractal nature of network traffic""; ""2.1 Fractals and self-similarity examples""; ""2.1.1 The Hurst exponent""; ""2.1.2 Samplemean variance""; ""2.2 Long range dependence""

""2.2.1 Aggregate process""""2.3 Self-similarity""; ""2.3.1 Exact second order self-similarity""; ""2.3.2 Impulsiveness""; ""2.4 Final remarks: why is the data networks traffic fractal?""; ""3 Modeling of long-range dependent teletraffic""; ""3.1 Classes of modeling""; ""3.1.1 Non-parametric modeling""; ""3.2 Wavelet transform""; ""3.2.1 Multiresolution analysis and the discrete wavelet transform""; ""3.3 ModelMWM""; ""3.4 Parametric modeling""; ""3.4.1 ARFIMAmodel""; ""3.4.2 ARFIMA models prediction - optimum estimation""; ""3.4.3 Formsof prediction""; ""3.4.4 Confidence interval""

""3.4.5 ARFIMAprediction""""3.5 Longmemorystatistical tests""; ""3.5.1 R/Sstatistics""; ""3.5.2 GPHtest""; ""3.6 Some H and d estimation methods""; ""3.6.1 R/Sstatistics""; ""3.6.2 Variance plot""; ""3.6.3



Periodogram method""; ""3.6.4 Whittle�s method""; ""3.6.5 Haslett and Raftery�s MV approximate estimator""; ""3.6.6 Abry andVeitch�swavelet estimator""; ""3.7 Bi-spectrum and linearity test""; ""3.8 KPSS stationarity test""; ""4 State-space modeling""; ""4.1 Introduction""; ""4.2 TARFIMAmodel""; ""4.2.1 Multistep prediction with the Kalman filter""

""4.2.2 The prediction power of the TARFIMA model""""4.3 Series exploratory analysis""; ""4.3.1 ARFIMA(0;  0.4;  0) series""; ""4.3.2 MWM series with H = 0.9""; ""4.3.3 Nile river series""; ""4.4 Prediction empirical studywith theTARFIMAmodel""; ""4.4.1 ARFIMA(0, d, 0) series""; ""4.4.2 MWMseries""; ""4.4.3 Nile river series between years 1007 and 1206""; ""4.4.4 Conclusions""; ""5 Modeling of Internet traffic""; ""5.1 Introduction""; ""5.2 Modeling of the UNC02 trace""; ""5.2.1 Exploratory analysis""; ""5.2.2 Long memory local analysis of the UNC02 trace""

""5.2.3 Empirical prediction with the TARFIMA model""""6 Conclusions""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""About the Authors""

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782060103321

Autore

Gaunt Kyra D

Titolo

The Games Black Girls Play [[electronic resource] ] : Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : NYU Press, 2006

ISBN

0-8147-3273-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (237 p.)

Disciplina

780/.89/96073

Soggetti

African American girls -- Social life and customs

African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism

Double dutch (Rope skipping) -- United States

Rap (Music) -- History and criticism

Singing games -- United States

African Americans - History and criticism - Music - United States

African American girls - Social life and customs - United States

Rap (Music) - History and criticism

Singing games

Double dutch (Rope skipping)

Music

Music, Dance, Drama & Film

Music History & Criticism, Popular - Jazz, Rock, etc



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Musical Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Slide: Games as Lessons in Black Musical Style; 2 Education, Liberation:Learning the Ropes of a Musical Blackness; 3 Mary Mack Dressed in Black:The Earliest Formation of a Popular Music; 4 Saw You With Your Boyfriend:Music between the Sexes; 5 Who's Got Next Game?Women, Hip-Hop, and the Power of Language; 6 Double Forces Has Got the Beat:Reclaiming Girls' Music in the Sport of Double-Dutch; 7 Let a Woman Jump:Dancing with the Double Dutch Divas; Conclusion; Appendix:Musical Transcriptions of Game-Songs Studied; Bibliography

IndexAbout the Author

Sommario/riassunto

2007 Alan Merriam Prize presented by the Society for Ethnomusicology. 2007 PEN/Beyond Margins Book Award Finalist. When we think of African American popular music, our first thought is probably not of double-dutch: girls bouncing between two twirling ropes, keeping time to the tick-tat under their toes. But this book argues that the games black girls play -handclapping songs, cheers, and double-dutch jump rope-both reflect and inspire the principles of black popular musicmaking. The Games Black Girls Play illustrates how black musical styles are incorporated into the earliest games African Ame