Telephone Traffic Models

• How are calls placed?

- call arrival model

- studies show that time between calls is drawn from an exponential distribution

- call arrival process is therefore Poisson

• How long are calls held?

- usually modeled as exponential

- however, measurement studies show it to be heavy tailed (e.g. Pareto distributed)

- means a significant number of calls last a very long time

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