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List of Abbreviations and Symbols

EBB --: Exponentially Bounded Burstiness.
EBF --: Exponentially Bounded Fluctuation.
FBM --: Fractional Brownian Motion.
SBB --: Stochastically Bounded Burstiness.
SBF --: Stochastically Bounded Fluctuation.
--: Complementary distribution function of the Pseudo-Pareto distribution.
R(t) --: Traffic rate of an SBB process.
V(t) --: Workload.
W(t) --: Waiting time.
--: Laplace transform of the inter-arrival time distribution.
--: Laplace transform of the pseudo-Pareto distribution.
--: Laplace transform of the waiting time distribution.
B --: Parameter controlling the discretization accuracy (Chapter 2).
C --: Service rate capacity.
M --: Lowest index of the sum of exponentials (Chapter 2).
N --: Highest index of the sum of exponentials (Chapter 2).
--: Bounding function of an SBB process.
--: Power of decay of an heavy-tailed distribution (Chapter 2).
--: Mean arrival rate.
--: Mean service rate.
--: Load.
--: Upper rate of an SBB process.
--: Roots of the denominator of .

David Starobinski
Mon Nov 1 15:20:02 PST 1999