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Login times in e-mail servers are scale-free

2003/07/22 by Arnab Chatterjee, Chatterjee, Arnab
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Cloud Computing and Resource Management #Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems #FOS: Physical sciences #Network Traffic and Congestion Control #Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech) #cond-mat.stat-mech

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0307533

2 pages, 1 eps figure, RevTeX4

arxiv created 2003/07/22 · openalex publication_date 2003/07/22 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

The login time distribution in e-mail servers are studied. The distribution seems to be decaying in a scale-free manner with a decay exponent lying between 1.2 and 2.2, varying from server to server. A simple mean-field theory shows that this distribution has a decay exponent 2.

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