—The departure process of a BMAP/MAP/1 queue can be approximated in different ways: as a Markovian arrival process (MAP) or as a matrix-exponential process (MEP). Both approximat...
Qi Zhang, Armin Heindl, Evgenia Smirni, Andreas St...
In the context of network traffic analysis, we address the problem of estimating the tail index of flow (or more generally of any group) size distribution from the observation of...
With the pervasive use of handheld digital devices such as camera phones and PDAs, people have started to capture images as a way of recording information. However, due to the non...
—One key adaptation mechanism often deployed in networking and computing systems is dynamic load balancing. The goal from employing dynamic load balancers is to ensure that the o...
Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta, Yuti...
: We develop a new approach to combinatorial games (e.g., chess, Go, checkers, Chomp, Nim) that unveils connections between such games and nonlinear phenomena commonly seen in natu...