A machine capable of demonstrating and solving queueing
problems is useful to any systems engineer. This paper describes
a successful queueing simulator constructed from readily available
materials. The machine is easy to operate, portable, and simple
enough to be built in any well equipped machine shop.
The educational values of...
In this thesis, convergence of time inhomogeneous Markov chains is studied using an adiabatic approach. The adiabatic framework considers slowly changing systems and the adiabatic time quantifies the time required for the change such that the final state of the system is close to some equilibrium state. This approach is...
Traditionally, networking protocol designs have placed much emphasis on point-to-point reliability and efficiency. With the recent rise of mobile and multimedia applications, other considerations such as power consumption and/or Quality of Service (QoS) are becoming increasingly important factors in designing network protocols. As such, we present a new flexible framework...
The objective of many steady-state simulations is to
study the behavior of a nonterminating system with a peak load
of infinite duration. Due to the complexity of the system, the
initial conditions of the system are often atypical that often
requires the simulators to start the system with the empty...
Markov Decision Process (MDP) is a well-known framework for devising the optimal decision making strategies under uncertainty. Typically, the decision maker assumes a stationary environment which is characterized by a time-invariant transition probability matrix. However, in many real-world scenarios, this assumption is not justified, thus the optimal strategy might not...
Computers using the tagged-token dataflow model are among the best candidates for delivering extremely high levels of performance required in the future. Instruction scheduling in these computers is determined by associatively matching data-bearing tokens in a Waiting-Matching Unit (W-M unit). At the W-M unit, incoming tokens with matching contexts are...