Return-Path: william@bourbon.usc.edu Delivery-Date: Mon Sep 22 20:24:27 2008 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on merlot.usc.edu X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 Received: from bourbon.usc.edu (bourbon.usc.edu [128.125.9.75]) by merlot.usc.edu (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m8N3ORuE002935 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:24:27 -0700 Received: from bourbon.usc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by bourbon.usc.edu (8.14.2/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m8N3Qwfx029214 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:26:58 -0700 Message-Id: <200809230326.m8N3Qwfx029214@bourbon.usc.edu> To: cs551@merlot.usc.edu Subject: Re: CS551 prj 2 Inter Arrival Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:26:58 -0700 From: Bill Cheng Someone wrote: > According to the spec we have inter arrival packets arriving as > poisson process. I would like to know if this poisson process is > different or is it the same as calling the exponential function > that has been written for the service time ? It's the same thing. If the inter-arrival time is distributed according to an exponential distribution, an equivalent way of saying it is that the arrival process is a Posson process. -- Bill Cheng // bill.cheng@usc.edu