Using fluid models to prove stability of adversarial queueing networks

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 741-746

  Gamarnik, David ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PACKET NETWORKS; QUEUEING NETWORKS; RANDOM PROCESSES; THEOREM PROVING;

ADVERSARIAL QUEUEING NETWORK; FLUID MODEL; PACKET ROUTING;

SYSTEM STABILITY;

EID: 0034172189     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/9.847114     Document Type: Article

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