Book reviews: a summary of multifractal traffic modeling

One of the most important discoveries about Internet traffic is the scaling phenomenon. Different from the traditional traffic pattern, primarily the Poisson model, this type of traffic shows a slowly decaying dependence structure and can be approximately characterized by a self-similar process. Multiscale behavior is a more complex version of self-similarity, indicating that the scaling property of the traffic process isn't uniform across multiple time scales and orders of statistics. It's often modeled with the multifractal process. "Multifractal Based Network Traffic Modeling" provides an accessible but somewhat narrow summary of the research on self-similar and multiscale traffic.