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Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Volume 2013, Article ID 217213, 8 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/217213
Research Article

Stationarity Testing of Accumulated Ethernet Traffic

Zhiping Lu,1 Ming Li,2 and Wei Zhao3

1School of Finance and Statistics, East China Normal University, No. 500, Dong-Chuan Road, Shanghai 200241, China
2School of Information Science and Technology, East China Normal University, No. 500, Dong-Chuan Road, Shanghai 200241, China
3Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Macau, Av. Padre Tomas Pereira, Taipa, Macau

Received 26 January 2013; Revised 12 March 2013; Accepted 13 March 2013

Academic Editor: Shengyong Chen

Copyright © 2013 Zhiping Lu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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