“…The use of β in past works on the Waxman graphs has allowed for β > 1, at which point the function (2) must be truncated, creating a corner in the deterrence function shape. This is undesirable from the point of view of parametric estimation, so we restrict †Some examples of use of the Waxman graph include (Waxman, 1988;Thomas and Zegura, 1994;Zegura et al, 1996Zegura et al, , 1997Doar and Leslie, 1993;Wei and Estrin, 1994;Salama et al, 1997;Verma et al, 1998;Matta and Guo, 1999;Shaikh et al, 1999;Fortz and Thorup, 2004;Neve and Mieghem, 2000;Rastogi et al, 2001;Wu et al, 2000;Guo and Matta, 2003;Kuipers, 2004;Kaiser and Hilgetag, 2004b,a;Gunduz et al, 2004;Carzaniga et al, 2004;Lua et al, 2005;Holzer et al, 2005;Wang et al, 2005;Ahuja et al, 2009;Huang et al, 2007;Malladi et al, 2007;Tran and Pham, 2009;Fang et al, 2011a,b;Costa et al, 2010;Janssen, 2010;Davis et al, 2014).…”