Multiplicative multifractal process based modeling of broadband traffic processes: variable bit rate video traffic

We have developed a new approach to model broadband network traffic based on multiplicative multifractal models. We propose a VVGM (variable variance Gaussian multiplier) multiplicative multifractal model for modeling VBR traffic. The results of the detailed statistical and performance analysis on the original and the synthesized traces are presented. The results of the proposed model on comparison with the traditionally used fARIMA and the wavelet based video traffic process are shown to be significantly better.