Heavy traffic approximation for workload processes with heavy tailed service requirements

Management Science

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1236-1248

  Resnick, Sidney ^a   Samorodnitsky, Gennady ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PARETO PRINCIPLE; QUEUEING THEORY; RANDOM PROCESSES; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

HEAVY TAILS; HEAVY TRAFFIC APPROXIMATION; PARETO TAILS; RANDOM WALK; REGULAR VARIATION;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 0033680207     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.46.9.1236.12234     Document Type: Article

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