Provides a modern mathematical approach to the design of communication networks for
graduate students, blending control, optimization, and stochastic network theories. A broad …

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

This paper presents a personal view of work to date on e ective bandwidths, emphasising
the unifying role of the concept: as a summary of the statistical characteristics of sources …

Traditionally engineers devised communication services without reference to how they
should be priced. In today's environment pricing is a very complex subject and in practice …

Information theory has not yet had a direct impact on networking, although there are
similarities in concepts and methodologies that have consistently attracted the attention of …

By focusing on the convergence of the telephone, computer networking, cable TV, and
wireless industries, this fully revised second edition explains current and emerging …

Network devices put packets on an Internet link, and multiplex, or superpose, the packets
from different active connections. Extensive empirical and theoretical studies of packet traffic …

Big Queues aims to give a simple and elegant account of how large deviations theory can
be applied to queueing problems. Large deviations theory is a collection of powerful results …

We consider a network where each user is charged a fixed price per unit of bandwidth used,
but where there is no congestion-dependent pricing. However, the transmission rate of each …

Although ATM seems to be the wave of the future, one analysis requires that the utilization of
the network be quite low. That analysis is based on asymptotic decay rates of steady-state …