“…The seminal work of Leland et al [8] has triggered an explosion of research on traffic self-similarity (e.g., [14,26,29]), which has been discovered as a ubiquitous phenomenon in modern communication networks and multimedia systems, including wired local-area networks [8], wide-area networks [21], wireless and mobile networks [9,22], World Wide Web [5], and Variable-Bit-Rate (VBR) video systems [2]. So far, many models have been developed to characterize traffic self-similarity or generate self-similar traffic traces.…”