A refinement of the Hunt-Kurtz theory of large loss networks, with an application to virtual partitioning

Annals of Applied Probability

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-22

  Zachary, Stan ^a   Ziedins, Ilze ^b  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Functional law of large numbers; Liapounov function; Loss network; Partitioning; Trunk reservation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036116140     PISSN: 10505164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aoap/1015961154     Document Type: Article

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