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Representing the session-initiation and file-transmission processes as an infinite-server queueing system with Poisson arrivals, we derive the transient conditional mean and covariance function that describes the number of active sessions as well as the steady-state counterparts of these moments. Assuming the file size (service time) for each session follows the Lomax distribution, we show that the variance of the sample mean for the time-averaged number of active sessions tends to zero as the power of 1 \u2212 \u03b1 of the simulation run length. Therefore, impractically large sample-path lengths are required to achieve point estimators with acceptable levels of statistical accuracy. This study compares the accuracy of point estimators based on the Lomax distribution with those for lognormal and Weibull file-size distributions whose parameters are determined by matching their means and a selected extreme quantile with those of the Lomax. 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