Reduced-Load Equivalence and Induced Burstiness in GPS Queues with Long-Tailed Traffic Flows

Queueing Systems

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 273-306

  Borst, Sem ^a,b,c   Boxma, Onno ^a,b   Jelenković, Predrag ^d  

^a CWI   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^d Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Generalized Processor Sharing; Induced burstiness; Long tailed traffic; Reduced load equivalence; Weighted Fair Queueing; Workload asymptotics

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTICS; BURSTINESS; GENERALIZED PROCESSOR SHARING; REDUCED-LOAD EQUIVALENCE; WEIGHTED FAIR QUEUEING;

QUEUEING THEORY;

EID: 0037265858     PISSN: 02570130     EISSN: 15729443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023237129453     Document Type: Article

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