Stochastic Networks

...illuminate(s) many features of current research, letting us see its concerns and its style.

• 1. Convergence to equilibria for fluid models of FIFO and processor sharing queueing networks ; 2. Optimal draining of fluid re-entrant lines: some solved examples ; 3. On the approximation of queueing networks in heavy traffic ; 4. The BIGSTEP approach to flow management in stochastic processing networks ; 5. Queue lengths and departures at single-server resources ; 6. Large deviations of stationary reflected Brownian motions ; 7. Limit theorems for workload input models ; 8. Notes on effective bandwidths ; 9. Traffic characterisation and effective bandwidths for broadband network traces ; 10. Nonparametric estimation for quantities of interest in queues ; 11. The asymptotic behaviour of large loss networks ; 12. Admission controls for loss networks with diverse routing ; 13. On load balancing in Erlang networks ; 14. Analysing system behaviour on different timescales ; 15. Optimal returns and suboptimality bounds for systems satisfying generalised conservation laws ; 16. Approximate solutions for open networks with breakdowns and repairs ; 17. Stationary ergodic Jackson networks: results and counter-examples ; 18. The Cesaro limit of departures from certain ./GI/1 queueing tandems ; 19. The Poisson-independence hypothesis for infintely-growing fully-connected packet-switching networks ; 20. A bibliographical guide to self-similar traffic and performance modeling for modern high-speed networks