Consider a data communication network owned and operated by a single organization. The network has an infinite number of small users and is managed by a system manager (SM) whose objective is to maximize the net value of the system as a whole. The objective of this paper is to study pricing...

Bottleneck analysis is a useful tool in capacity planning for centrally controlled network systems. However, under a decentralized network where individual users are allowed to select their own routes, straightforward application of bottleneck analysis does not necessarily yield an optimal...

This paper shows that row-continuous Markov chains with one or two boundaries have transient probabilities with matrix-geometric structure. Also explored is the relationship between the Green's function method and the matrix-geometric structure. Also explored is the relationship between the...