“…The result of this recent work implies nothing about the behavior of the available bandwidth of a single path over time, which is the focus of our study. Lastly, the related work [2,3,5,6,9,14,[26][27][28][29] studied modeling and characteristics of the amount of transmission bandwidth consumed by both overall network traffic and some major network traffic types, for example FTP, TELNET, HTTP, and variable-bit-rate (VBR) videos. This existing work and ours are different since we focus on modeling of the available bandwidth of a path, not a particular type of traffic or the overall network traffic.…”