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Traffic Distribution and Entropy

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This article offers a contribution to the theory of traffic distribution and presents some experimental results for comparison with the theory.

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TOMLIN, J., TOMLIN, S. Traffic Distribution and Entropy. Nature 220, 974–976 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/220974a0

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