Call admission: A new approach to quality of service

Queueing Systems

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 125-148

  Reiman, Martin I ^a   Shwartz, Adam ^b  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Admission control; ATM; Mathematical programming; Near complete decomposability; Semi Markov decision process

Indexed keywords

ACCESS CONTROL; AUTOMATIC TELLER MACHINES; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING;

CALL ADMISSION; NEAR COMPLETE DECOMPOSABILITY; NETWORK DESIGN; NEW APPROACHES; OPTIMAL POLICIES; QUALITY OF SERVICE GUARANTEES; SEMI-MARKOV DECISION PROCESS; STANDARD DEFINITIONS;

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 0035536038     PISSN: 02570130     EISSN: 15729443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1010902230158     Document Type: Article

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