Steady-state asymptotics for tandem, split-match and other feedforward queues with heavy tailed service

Queueing Systems

Volumn 33, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 233-259

  Huang, Tao ^a   Sigman, Karl ^b  

^a Citibank   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Delay; Feedforward networks; Heavy tailed distributions; Split match queue; Subexponential; Tail asymptotics; Tandem queue

Indexed keywords

FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS;

DELAY; FEED-FORWARD NETWORK; HEAVY-TAILED DISTRIBUTION; SPLIT-MATCH QUEUE; SUBEXPONENTIAL; TAIL ASYMPTOTICS; TANDEM QUEUE;

QUEUEING THEORY;

EID: 0033474279     PISSN: 02570130     EISSN: 15729443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1019128213295     Document Type: Article

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