Stability and nonproduct form of stochastic fluid networks with Lévy inputs

Annals of Applied Probability

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 186-199

  Kella, Offer ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

L vy process; Nonproduct form; Reflected process; Stability; Stochastic fluid networks; Tandem networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030540259     PISSN: 10505164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aoap/1034968070     Document Type: Article

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