Universal stability results for low rate adversaries in packet switched networks

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 578-580

  Echagüe, Juan ^a   Cholvi, Vicent ^a   Fernández, Antonio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adversarial model; Packet scheduling policies; Packet switched networks; Stability

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SCHEDULING; SERVERS; STABILITY; THEOREM PROVING;

ADVERSARIAL MODEL; LOAD RATE; UNIVERSAL STABILITY; WORK-CONSERVING POLICY;

PACKET NETWORKS;

EID: 0345872217     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2003.821324     Document Type: Article

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