It is common for simulation and analytical studies to model Internet traffic as an aggregation of mostly persistent TCP flows. In practice, however, flows follow a heavytailed ...
In outsourced database (ODB) systems the database owner publishes its data through a number of remote servers, with the goal of enabling clients at the edge of the network to acce...
Feifei Li, Marios Hadjieleftheriou, George Kollios...
Two important performance metrics in collaborative systems are local and remote response times. Previous analytical and simulation work has shown that these response times depend ...
The popular models for repairable item inventory, both in the literature as well as practical applications, assume that the demands for items are independent of the number of work...
Hoong Chuin Lau, Huawei Song, Chuen Teck See, Siew...
Spectral expansion and matrix analytic methods are important solution mechanisms for matrix polynomial equations. These equations are encountered in the steady-state analysis of M...