Largest weighted delay first scheduling: Large deviations and optimality

Annals of Applied Probability

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-48

  Stolyar, Alexander L ^a   Ramanan, Kavita ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Control; Earliest deadline first (EDF); Fluid limit; Large deviations; LWDF; Optimality; Quality of service (QoS); Queueing delay; Queueing theory; Rate function; Scheduling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035628786     PISSN: 10505164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aoap/998926986     Document Type: Article

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