Abstract. Time dependent behavior has an impact on the performance of telecommunication models. Examples include: staffing a call center, pricing the inventory of private line serv...
The Erlang formula is known to be insensitive to the holding time distribution beyond the mean. While calls are generally assumed to arrive as a Poisson process, we prove that it ...
In this paper, the arrival of calls (i.e., new and handoff calls) in a personal communications services (PCS) network is modeled by a Markov arrival process (MAP) in which we allow...
An active research area in telecommunications concerns how to specify and control the addition of new services, such as call waiting or instant messaging, into existing software. ...
Emden R. Gansner, John M. Mocenigo, Stephen C. Nor...
Display ads on the Internet are increasingly sold via ad exchanges such as RightMedia, AdECN and Doubleclick Ad Exchange. These exchanges allow real-time bidding, that is, each ti...