— Quality of Service (QoS) is an area with high academic curiosity. Our long-term goal is to develop a unified mathematical model. This paper is a first step towards this ambit...
This paper describes JSIM: the simulation module of the Java Modelling Tools (JMT), an open-source fully-portable Java suite for capacity planning studies. The simulator has been ...
Quantitative performance modeling of complex information systems is of immense importance for designing enterprise e-business infrastructures and applications. In this paper, we p...
Queueing network formalisms are very good at describing the spatial movement of customers, but typically poor at describing how customers change as they move through the network. ...
Abstract— In this paper we analyse a feedback system consisting of a finite buffer fluid queue and a responsive source. The source alternates between silence periods and active...