Email Message Interarrival Time Analysis
Walters, Lourens O and Pieter S Kritzinger (2002) Email Message Interarrival Time Analysis. Technical Report, Department of Computer Science, University of Cape Town.
Full text available as: |
Abstract
The arrival pattern of email messages at an email server shows daily and weekly arrival patterns. The interarrival distribution is skewed to the right and has a large variance which suggests heavy-tailed behaviour. Further analysis shows that although the data is severely skewed the tail of the distribution does not follow a power rate and is therefore not heavy-tailed.
| EPrint Type: | Departmental Technical Report |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | SMTP, traffic trace, heavy tail, scaling method |
| Subjects: | I Computing Methodologies: I.6 SIMULATION AND MODELING C Computer Systems Organization: C.2 COMPUTER-COMMUNICATION NETWORKS G Mathematics of Computing: G.3 PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS |
| ID Code: | 107 |
| Deposited By: | Walters, Lourens Olivier |
| Deposited On: | 25 March 2004 |