
159Fractal Trafc Modeling Applied in Network Simulation
6.3 MULTIFRACTAL PROCESSES
In contrast to the self-similar or monofractal behavior in modern network trafc, recent stud-
ies have claimed that measured TCP/IP and WAN ATM trafc ows exhibit a more complex
scaling behavior, which is consistent with multifractals [16]. Multifractal-based trafc model-
ing has more general and broad covering than the monofractal-based one (e.g., self-similar and
long-range dependent), providing a more accurate and detailed description of network traf-
c series in different time scales [15]. In the context of network trafc, multifractal-based
approaches can ...