Abstract
Time dependent behavior has an impact on the performance of telecommunication models. Examples include: staffing a call center, pricing the inventory of private line services for profit maximization, and measuring the time lag between the peak arrivals and peak load for a system. These problems and more motivate the development of a queueing theory with time varying rates. Queueing theory as discussed in this paper is organized and presented from a communications perspective. Canonical queueing models with time-varying rates are given and the necessary mathematical tools are developed to analyze them. Finally, we illustrate the use of these models through various communication applications.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 173-204 |
| Number of pages | 32 |
| Journal | Telecommunication Systems |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue number | 2-4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2002 |
| Externally published | Yes |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Keywords
- Carried load
- Circuit switched networks
- Delay models
- Diffusion approximations
- Fluid approximations
- Loss models
- Multiserver queues
- Offered load
- Packet networks
- Private line services
- Server staffing
- Wireless networks