Since the seminal study of Leland et al. [41] on the self-similar nature of network traf®c, signi®cant advances have been made in understanding the statistical properties of measured network traf®cÐin particular, Internet workloadsÐwhy self-similar burstiness is an ubiquitous phenomenon present in diverse networking contexts, mathematical models for their description and performance analysis based on queueing, and traf®c control and resource management under self-similar traf®c conditions. Chapt