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"Fractals Reemerge in the New Math of the Internet," by Gary Taubes. Science, 25 September 1998, pages 1947-1948.
The existing paradigm for modeling traffic in the telephone system assumes that call volume may fluctuate over small time scales, but over longer time scales, these fluctuations smooth out. This model works well for POTS, or "Plain Old Telephone Service", but not for internet traffic, which tends to be "bursty" over short and long time scales. Researchers have found that fractals provide a better way of modeling usage patterns on the internet. This article reports on these developments, which were described in an article, "Where Mathematics Meets the Internet", which appeared in the September 1998 issue of the AMS news journal, Notices.
--- Allyn Jackson
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