Fluid and diffusion limits for queues in slowly changing environments

Communications in Statistics. Part C: Stochastic Models

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 121-146

  Choudhury, G L ^a   Reiman, M I ^b   Mandelbaum, A ^c   Whitt, W ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Diffusion processes; Fluid limit; Heavy traffic; Markov modulated process; Nearly completely decomposable Markov chains; Piecewise stationary Mt Gt 1 queue; Queues in random environments; Stochastic fluid models

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039956180     PISSN: 08820287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15326349708807417     Document Type: Article

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