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ICPADS
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2007
IEEE
We consider a system with a dispatcher and several identical servers in parallel. Task processing times are known upon arrival. We first study the impact of the local scheduling ...
EOR
2011
13 years 2 months ago
2011
Bulk-arrival queues with single servers that provide bulk service are widespread in the real world, e.g., elevators in buildings, people-movers in amusement parks, air-cargo deliv...
CPAIOR
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
2007
Springer
In a facility with front room and back room operations, it is useful to switch workers between the rooms in order to cope with changing customer demand. Assuming stochastic custome...
AINA
2003
IEEE
14 years 25 days ago
2003
IEEE
This paper proposes an analytical model for delayed reservation scheme, which can be exactly analyzed. By applying it to a server-based QoS management network, we can obtain the r...
INFOCOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2007
IEEE
— Background transfers, or transfers that humans do not actively wait on, dominate the Internet today. In today’s best-effort Internet, background transfers can interfere with ...