Performance Evaluation of Distributed Computer-Communication Systems

Abstract

The computer-communication field is rich with extremely challenging problems for the queueing theorist. In this paper, we describe a number of computer-communication applications in wide-area networks, packet radio networks and local area networks. All of these involve sophisticated queueing theoretic models which have led to advanced applications of existing theory and in some cases, to new methods in queueing theory. A significant component in many of these applications is that of multi-access to a common resource (typically, a communication channel); we devote a significant portion of this paper to multi-access systems. In addition to identifying problems of interest to the queueing theorist. This paper summarizes the latest results for the mean response time of many current computer-communication applications.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADA519998

Entities

People

  • Leonard Kleinrock

Organizations

  • University of California, Los Angeles

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Communication Channels
  • Communication Systems
  • Computer Communications
  • Computer Networks
  • Computers
  • Frequency Division Multiple Access
  • Information Processing
  • Local Area Networks
  • Multiple Access
  • Network Science
  • Queueing Theory
  • Radio Equipment
  • Random Variables
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Throughput
  • Time Division Multiple Access

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Networking
  • Theoretical Analysis.