An average is "infinite"? that is, not representable with a finite string of digits? I don't think so.
I suspect what is meant is that the average is much larger than the median or mode (of the distribution). "Mode" may be taken as the amount of traffic that is 'typical' or 'most commonly observed.' Thought occurred to me: When you report 'bursty' or 'burst traffic' are you talking about the maximum traffic in a time period, such as one minute, or are you talking about the amount of traffic on a system measured at specific time periods? If the first, then the distribution may fall under the category of distributions for extremes. These are generally NOT Normal distributions, but closer to log-Normal, Poisson, and even more emphasis on tails than those. Cheers, Jay Faisal wrote: > [snip] > > "we use long tailed distribution on bursty traffic because the average > of bursts occuring is infinite" > > Thanks > > Faisal -- Jay Warner Principal Scientist Warner Consulting, Inc. 4444 North Green Bay Road Racine, WI 53404-1216 USA Ph: (262) 634-9100 FAX: (262) 681-1133 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.a2q.com The A2Q Method (tm) -- What do you want to improve today? . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
