In recent years service curves have proven a powerful and versatile model for performance
analysis of network elements, such as schedulers, links, and traffic shapers, up to entire …

Providing performance guarantees is one of the most important issues for future
telecommunication networks. This book describes theoretical developments in performance …

The Internet is facing two problems simultaneously: there is a need for a faster
switching/routing infrastructure and a need to introduce guaranteed qualities-of-service …

An ad hoc wireless network, or simply an ad hoc network, consists of a collection of
geographically distributed nodes that communicate with one other over a wireless medium …

The approach we employ in this chapter to study the stability of queueing networks employs
fluid limits and fluid models. Fluid models were discussed briefly in Section 1.3; we will …

This paper considers how to optimally set the basestock level for a single buffer when
demand is uncertain, in a robust framework. We present a family of algorithms based on …

A large number of products implementing aggregate buffering and scheduling mechanisms
have been developed and deployed, and still more are under development. With the rapid …

In this paper, we analyze the behavior of packet-switched communication networks in which
packets arrive dynamically at the nodes and are routed in discrete time steps across the …

In recent years, gossip-based algorithms have gained prominence as a methodology for
designing robust and scalable communication schemes in large distributed systems. The …

This book presents the history and state of the art of universal routing strategies, which can
be applied to networks independently of their respective topologies. It opens with a self …