A large deviation principle for join the shortest queue

Mathematics of Operations Research

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 700-710

  Puhalskii, Anatolii A ^a,b   Vladimirov, Alexander A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TRANSMISSION PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Discontinuous dynamics; Idempotent probability; Join the shortest queue; Large deviations

Indexed keywords

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; PROBABILITY; SERVERS;

DISCONTINUOUS DYNAMICS; IDEMPOTENT PROBABILITY; LARGE DEVIATIONS;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 38549084797     PISSN: 0364765X     EISSN: 15265471     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/moor.1070.0263     Document Type: Article

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