On G-networks and resource allocation in multimedia systems

    Authors

    E. Gelenbe;H. Shachnai

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Eur. J. Oper. Res.

    Keywords

    queueing networks; Gelenbe networks; negative customers; signals and; triggers; product form; random neural networks; learning; VIDEO; Management; Operations Research & Management Science

    Abstract

    Consider a multimedia-on-demand server who transmits video documents through a high-speed network, to geographically distributed clients. The server accumulates requests for specific documents in separate queues. The queues need to share the transmission medium in some fashion, typically in Round-Robin (RR) mode. We describe the resulting performance modeling problem, and develop an approximate representation using queuing networks. Our analytic model enables the efficient implementation of a new scheduling scheme, that we call the Local Round-Robin (LRR). We show that LRR yields significant improvement in system performance, compared to the original RR. (C) 2000 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

    Journal Title

    European Journal of Operational Research

    Volume

    126

    Issue/Number

    2

    Publication Date

    1-1-2000

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    308

    Last Page

    318

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000088925200006

    ISSN

    0377-2217

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