Geometric bounds: A noniterative analysis technique for closed queueing networks

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 780-794

  Casale, Giuliano ^a   Muntz, Richard R ^b   Serazzi, Giuseppe ^c  

^a The College of William and Mary   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computer systems organization; Modeling techniques; Operating systems; Performance; Performance of systems; Queuing theory; Software software engineering

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; QUEUEING THEORY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

CLOSED QUEUEING NETWORKS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS ORGANIZATION; GEOMETRIC BOUNDS; NONITERATIVE ANALYSIS;

QUEUEING NETWORKS;

EID: 44049090624     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.2008.37     Document Type: Article

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