Layered bottlenecks and their mitigation

Third International Conference on the Quantitative Evaluation of Systems, QEST 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 103-112

  Franks, Greg ^a   Petriu, Dorina ^a   Woodside, Murray ^a   Xu, Jing ^a   Tregunno, Peter ^b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Alcatel ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTLENECKS; RESOURCE POSSESSION;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

QUEUEING NETWORKS;

EID: 41149172419     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/QEST.2006.23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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