Balancing queues by mean field interaction

Queueing Systems

Volumn 49, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 335-361

  Dawson, Donald A ^a   Tang, Jiashan ^a,b   Zhao, Yiqiang Q ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Birth death process; Law of large numbers; Mean field; Nonlinear master equation; Queue

Indexed keywords

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

BIRTH-DEATH PROCESS; LAW OF LARGE NUMBERS; MASTER EQUATIONS; MEAN FIELD; QUEUE;

QUEUEING THEORY;

EID: 18244363333     PISSN: 02570130     EISSN: 15729443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11134-005-6971-z     Document Type: Article

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