Empirical studies showed that many types of network traffic exhibit long-range dependence (LRD),i.e., burstiness on a wide variety of time-scales. Given that traffic streams are indeed endowed withLRD properties, a next question is: what is their impact on network performance? To assess...

We consider a queue fed by a large number, say n, of on-off sources with generally distributed on-and off-times. The queueing resources are scaled by n: the buffer is B=nb and link rate is C=nc.The model is versatile: it allows us to model both long range dependent traffic (by using heavy-tailed...

We analyze the number of zeros of det(F([alpha])), where F([alpha]) is the matrix exponent of a Markov Additive Process (MAP) with one-sided jumps. The focus is on the number of zeros in the right half of the complex plane, where F([alpha]) is analytic. In addition, we also consider the case of...

Consider events of the form {Zs=[zeta](s),s[set membership, variant]S}, where Z is a continuous Gaussian process with stationary increments, [zeta] is a function that belongs to the reproducing kernel Hilbert space R of process Z, and is compact. The main problem considered in this paper is...

This paper focuses on numerical evaluation techniques related to fluctuation theory for Lévy processes; they can be applied in various domains, e.g., in finance in the pricing of so-called barrier options. More specifically, with $$\bar{X}_t:= \sup _{0\le s\le t} X_s$$ denoting the running...

In this paper, we study the weak convergence of a sequence of Markov-modulated diffusion processes when the modulating Markov chain is ergodic and rapidly switching. We prove, in particular, its tightness property based on Aldous’ tightness criterion.

A quasi-identifier is a set of attributes that can be used to re-identify entries in anonymized data sets. A group of individuals is considered about whom quasi-identifying numerical information is disclosed such as date of birth, age, weight, and height. The fraction of individuals is...

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In service systems, in order to balance the server’s idle times and the customers’ waiting times, one may fix the arrival times of the customers beforehand in an appointment schedule. We propose a procedure for determining appointment schedules in such a D/G/1-type of system by sequentially...