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Traditionally, models of packet arrival in communication networks have assumed either Poisson or compound Poisson arrival patterns. A study of a token ring local area network (LAN) at MIT 5 found that packet arrival followed neither of these models. Instead, traffic followed a more general model dubbed the “packet train,” which describes network traffic as a collection of packet streams traveling between pairs of nodes. A packet train consists of a number of packets travelling between a particular node pair.
Steven A. Heimlich (Mon,) studied this question.