The flow is defined as the set of those packets with the same source and destination addresses, the same source and destination port numbers, and the same protocol type.
The time interval between two packets from the same source to the same destination is set to be 5 ms as default.
There are many applications where identical data is transferred from the same source towards different destinations.
The same for source-destination pairs 2m,2m+1,…,4m−2, etc.
However, the averages may not be the same since the path losses between the source-destination and the source-relay-destination are not the same.
An example of this scenario is when CSMA and RTS/CTS fail to avoid the collision between two source packets.a If both source packets are intending for the same destination, the receiver at the destination will be required to handle the partial packet recovery for more than one packet at the same time.
As such, the shadowing between the source-destination and source-relay links is auto-correlated, and that between the source-destination and relay-destination links is cross-correlated.
Specifically, the following features were considered: the overlap in incidence between the source and destination community, the source incidence product with the destination growth rate, and the relative timings of peak incidence.
We identify the data by their destinations, that is, all data with the same destination are considered as a single commodity, regardless of its source.
In an ATM multipoint-to-point connection, multiple sources send data to the same destination on a shared tree.
We start with the case that multiple sources send data to the same destination.
