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<DIV><FONT size=2>Hello,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Could you please tell me how long should I run a simulation to
obtain a sufficiently confident result when using a self-similar traffic
trace?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>I want to show the performance of a scheme in
the 'general' case which consists of mixture of busy period and silent
period.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>However, a self-similar traffic trace can
have very long busy period and very long silent period with unnegligible
probability. Then any fixed simulation time can be entirely filled
with either busy period or silent period with unnegligible
probability.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>Is there any recommendation on simulation time (or how many
independent simulations should be run) to yield something like 90% confidence
interval.</DIV></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Thanks and regards.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Soo-hyeong</FONT></DIV>
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