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QUESTA
2008
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A note on the event horizon for a processor sharing queue
In this note we identify a phenomenon for processor sharing queues that is unique to ones with time-varying rates. This property was discovered while correcting a proof in Hampshi...
Robert C. Hampshire, William A. Massey
SIGMETRICS
2002
ACM
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Scalability of multicast delivery for non-sequential streaming access
To serve asynchronous requests using multicast, two categories of techniques
Shudong Jin, Azer Bestavros
JSAC
2006
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Performance characterization of multiband UWB communication systems using Poisson cluster arriving fading paths
This paper provides a novel performance analysis for ultra-wideband (UWB) systems that successfully captures the unique multipath-rich property and multipath-clustering phenomenon ...
W. Pam Siriwongpairat, Weifeng Su, K. J. Ray Liu
MANSCI
2008
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Staffing of Time-Varying Queues to Achieve Time-Stable Performance
Continuing research by Jennings, Mandelbaum, Massey and Whitt (1996), we investigate methods to perform time-dependent staffing for many-server queues. Our aim is to achieve time-...
Zohar Feldman, Avishai Mandelbaum, William A. Mass...
IOR
2006
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Sensitivity of Performance in the Erlang-A Queueing Model to Changes in the Model Parameters
This paper studies the M/M/s+M queue, i.e., the M/M/s queue with customer abandonment, also called the Erlang-A model, having independent and identically distributed customer aban...
Ward Whitt
DEXA
2009
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
Significance-Based Failure and Interference Detection in Data Streams
Detecting the failure of a data stream is relatively easy when the stream is continually full of data. The transfer of large amounts of data allows for the simple detection of inte...
Nickolas J. G. Falkner, Quan Z. Sheng