Insensitive queueing models for communication networks

T.  Bonald

1st International ICST Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools

Research Article

Insensitive queueing models for communication networks

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1145/1190095.1190168,
    author={T.  Bonald},
    title={Insensitive queueing models for communication networks},
    proceedings={1st International ICST Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools},
    publisher={ACM},
    proceedings_a={VALUETOOLS},
    year={2012},
    month={4},
    keywords={Partial reversibility insensitivity communication networks.},
    doi={10.1145/1190095.1190168}
}

T. Bonald
Year: 2012
Insensitive queueing models for communication networks
VALUETOOLS
ACM
DOI: 10.1145/1190095.1190168

T. Bonald¹^,*

1: France Telecom, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France.

*Contact email: thomas.bonald@orange-ft.com

Abstract

A rich class of communication networks can be represented as queueing networks with state-dependent arrival rates and service rates. We provide necessary and sufficient conditions for such queueing networks to be insensitive in the sense that the steady-state distribution depends on the service time distribution at each queue through the mean only. This insensitivity property is key to the development of simple engineering rules that do not require the knowledge of fine traffic statistics.

Keywords: Partial reversibility insensitivity communication networks.

Published: 2012-04-12
Publisher: ACM

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1190095.1190168