[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Faisal) wrote:
> I was reading the IEEE paper "Adaptive Bandwidth Allocation Methods in
> the Satellite Environment" by Raffaele Bolla, Daoli and Mario. On page
> 3 they have used Pareto distribution to model the traffic which is
>
> Pr{T = t} = c.t^(-a-1)
> where:
> a = alpha
> c= normalization constant
> and so on.
>
> So my my question are
> (1) what do they mean by normalization constant.
> (2) Is c = a.k^a since 2 parameter pareto is
>
> P(f(x)) = a.k^a.x^(-a-1)
By "normalization constant" they mean c is such that
integral_0^{infinity} c t^(-a-1) dt = 1
thus c = 1/integral_0^{infinity} t^(-a-1) dt.
Hope this helps,
Robert Dodier
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