A VOD server handles various types of media such as continuous media (CM) and non-continuous media (NM). Conventional VOD server buffer scheduling algorithms like Round Robin (RR)...
Simulation of dynamic complex systems—specifically, those comprised of large numbers of components with stochastic behaviors—for the purpose of probabilistic risk assessment f...
In the field of robust optimization, the goal is to provide solutions to combinatorial problems that hedge against variations of the numerical parameters. This constitutes an effor...
Monaldo Mastrolilli, Nikolaus Mutsanas, Ola Svenss...
We consider a call center with two classes of impatient customers: premium and regular classes. Modeling our call center as a multiclass GI/GI/s + M queue, we focus on developing ...
— The fairness of IEEE 802.11 wireless networks (including Wireless LAN and Ad-hoc networks) is hard to predict and control because of the randomness and complexity of the MAC co...