Martingale proofs of many-server heavy-traffic limits for Markovian queues

Probability Surveys

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 193-267

  Pang, Guodong ^a   Talreja, Rishi ^a   Whitt, Ward ^a  

^a Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion approximations; Functional central limit theorems; Many server heavy traffic limits for queues; Martingales; Multiple server queues

Indexed keywords

EID: 52949126577     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15495787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/06-PS091     Document Type: Article

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