Computing distributions and moments in polling models by numerical transform inversion

Performance Evaluation

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 267-292

  Choudhury, Gagan L ^a   Whitt, Ward ^a,b  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b Network Services Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Exhaustive service discipline; Fourier series method; Generating functions; Numerical transform inversion; Polling models; Tail probabilities; Transient analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; PERFORMANCE; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; QUEUEING THEORY;

EXHAUSTIVE SERVICE DISCIPLINE; GENERATING FUNCTIONS; NUMERICAL TRANSFORM INVERSION; POLLING MODELS; TAIL PROBABILITIES; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 0030171710     PISSN: 01665316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0166-5316(95)00015-1     Document Type: Article

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