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JSAC
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
Balancing competing resource allocation demands in a public cellular network that supports emergency services
Abstract—When an emergency happens, public communication networks, including cellular networks, public switched telecommunication networks, and the Internet can be utilized to su...
Jiazhen Zhou, C. Beard
QUESTA
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
Queues with system disasters and impatient customers when system is down
Consider a system (e.g. a computer farm or a call center) operating as a M/M/c queue, where c = 1, or 1 < c < ∞, or c = ∞. The system as a whole suffers disastrous break...
Uri Yechiali
SIGMETRICS
2003
ACM
14 years 23 days ago
Queueing systems with long-range dependent input process and subexponential service times
We analyze the asymptotic tail distribution of stationary waiting times and stationary virtual waiting times in a singleserver queue with long-range dependent arrival process and ...
Cathy H. Xia, Zhen Liu
WWW
2003
ACM
14 years 23 days ago
Providing Time of Service Guarantees in Video-On-Demand Servers
Recent advances in storage and communication technologies have spurred a strong interest in Video-on-Demand (VOD) services. Providing the customers of VOD servers with time of serv...
Nabil J. Sarhan, Chita R. Das
WSC
1998
13 years 8 months ago
Avoiding the Blues for Airline Travelers
The fast growth in airline passenger traffic combined with the slow growth in airport capacity worldwide is putting a severe strain on the capability of airlines to adapt their pr...
Jane L. Snowdon, Soad El-Taji, Mario Montevecchi, ...