Impact of aggregated, self-similar ON/OFF traffic on delay in stationary queueing models

Performance Evaluation

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 203-221

  Schwefel, Hans Peter ^a,c   Lipsky, Lester ^{a,b,d,e,f,g,h}  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b University of Connecticut   (United States)

^c AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^h UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); DATA STRUCTURES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUEUEING THEORY; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

QUALITY OF SERVICE; STATIONARY QUEUEING MODELS; TRUNCATED POWER-TAIL DISTRIBUTIONS;

QUEUEING NETWORKS;

EID: 0034831456     PISSN: 01665316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-5316(00)00046-8     Document Type: Article

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