State-dependent stochastic networks. Part I: Approximations and applications with continuous diffusion limits

Annals of Applied Probability

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 569-646

  Mandelbaum, Avi ^a   Pats, Gennady ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Birth and death process; Congestion dependent routing; Fluid and diffusion approximations; Large finite buffers; Learning systems; Multiserver systems; State and time dependent oblique reflection; State dependent networks; Weak convergence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032221189     PISSN: 10505164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aoap/1028903539     Document Type: Article

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