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Distribution-free confidence intervals for measurement of effective bandwidth

Part of: Stochastic systems and control Stochastic processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

László Györfi ,
András Rácz ,
Ken Duffy ,
John T. Lewis  and
Fergal Toomey
László Györfi*
Affiliation:
Technical University of Budapest
András Rácz*
Affiliation:
Technical University of Budapest
Ken Duffy*
Affiliation:
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
John T. Lewis*
Affiliation:
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
Fergal Toomey*
Affiliation:
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
*
∗Postal address: Department of Computer Science and Information Theory, Technical University of Budapest, 1521 Stoczek u. 2, Budapest, Hungary
∗Postal address: Department of Computer Science and Information Theory, Technical University of Budapest, 1521 Stoczek u. 2, Budapest, Hungary
∗∗Postal address: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 10 Burlington Road, Dublin 4, Ireland
∗∗Postal address: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 10 Burlington Road, Dublin 4, Ireland
∗∗Postal address: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 10 Burlington Road, Dublin 4, Ireland
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Abstract

Hoeffding's inequality can be used in conjunction with the declared parameters of a traffic source, such as its peak rate, to obtain confidence intervals for measurements of the traffic's effective bandwidth. We describe a variety of interval-estimation procedures based on this idea, designed to provide differing degrees of robustness against non-stationarity. We also discuss how to compute confidence intervals for the effective bandwidth of an aggregate of traffic sources.

Keywords

Effective bandwidthconfidence intervalsHoeffding's inequalitylarge deviations

MSC classification

Primary: 60G35: Signal detection and filtering
Secondary: 60G50: Sums of independent random variables; random walks 93E10: Estimation and detection
Type
Research Papers
Information
Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , March 2000 , pp. 224 - 235
Copyright
Copyright © 2000 by The Applied Probability Trust 

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