A min, + system theory for constrained traffic regulation and dynamic service guarantees

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 805-817

  Chang, Cheng Shang ^a   Cruz, Rene L ^b   Le Boudec, Jean Yves ^c   Thiran, Patrick ^c  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

(Min, +) algebra; Buffer overflow; Network calculus; Packet losses; Performance analysis; Traffic shaping

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOOLEAN ALGEBRA; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); CONSTRAINT THEORY; FEEDBACK CONTROL; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; OPTIMIZATION; PACKET NETWORKS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS;

ADMISSION CONTROL; BUFFER OVERFLOW; CONSTRAINED TRAFFIC REGULATION; DEADLINE SCHEDULING ALGORITHM; DYNAMIC SERVERS; DYNAMIC SERVICE CURVE; MAXIMUM BUFFER SIZE; MAXIMUM TOLERABLE DELAY; PACKET LOSSES;

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036952851     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2002.804824     Document Type: Article

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