Fairness is a major issue in the operation of queues, perhaps it is the reason why queues were formed in the first place. Recent studies show that the fairness of a queueing syst...
Slowdown, defined as the ratio of a request’s queueing delay to its service time, is accepted as an important quality of service metric of Internet servers. In this paper, we i...
Xiaobo Zhou, Yu Cai, C. Edward Chow, Marijke F. Au...
It is readily apparent how important the Internet is to modern life. The exponential growth in its use requires good tools for analyzing congestion. Much has been written recently...
Martin J. Fischer, Denise M. Bevilacqua Masi, Dona...
In this paper we consider a multi-server queue with a near general arrival process (represented as an arbitrary state-dependent Coxian distribution), a near general state-dependent...
We consider a general QBD process as defining a FIFO queue and obtain the stationary distribution of the sojourn time of a customer in that queue as a matrix exponential distribut...