Large Deviations for Gaussian Queues —— Modelling Communication Networks

----- 高斯序列的大偏差：通信网络建模

ISBN: 9780470015230 出版年：2007 页码：338 Michel Mandjes Wiley

Preface and acknowledgments. 1 Introduction. Part A: Gaussian traffic and large deviations. 2 The Gaussian source model. 2.1 Modeling network traffic. 2.2 Notation and preliminaries on Gaussian random variables. 2.3 Gaussian sources. 2.4 Generic examples-long-range dependence and smoothness. 2.5 Other useful Gaussian source models. 2.6 Applicability of Gaussian source models for network traffic. 3 Gaussian sources: validation, justification. 3.1 Validation. 3.2 Convergence of on-off traffic to a Gaussian process. 4 Large deviations for Gaussian processes. 4.1 Cram-er's theorem. 4.2 Schilder's theorem. Part B: Large deviations of Gaussian queues. 5 Gaussian queues: an introduction. 5.1 Lindley's recursion, the steady-state buffer content. 5.2 Gaussian queues. 5.3 Special cases: Brownian motion and Brownian bridge. 5.4 A powerful approximation. 5.5 Asymptotics. 5.6 Large-buffer asymptotics. 6 Logarithmic many-sources asymptotics. 6.1 Many-sources asymptotics: the loss curve. 6.2 Duality between loss curve and variance function. 6.3 The buffer-bandwidth curve is convex. 7 Exact many-sources asymptotics. 7.1 Slotted time: results. 7.2 Slotted time: proofs. 7.3 Continuous time: results. 7.4 Continuous time: proofs. 8 Simulation. 8.1 Determining the simulation horizon. 8.2 Importance sampling algorithms. 8.3 Asymptotic efficiency. 8.4 Efficient estimation of the overflow probability. 9 Tandem and priority queues. 9.1 Tandem: model and preliminaries. 9.2 Tandem: lower bound on the decay rate. 9.3 Tandem: tightness of the decay rate. 9.4 Tandem: properties of the input rate path. 9.5 Tandem: examples. 9.6 Priority queues. 10 Generalized processor sharing. 10.1 Preliminaries on GPS. 10.2 Generic upper and lower bound on the overflow probability. 10.3 Lower bound on the decay rate: class 2 in underload. 10.4 Upper bound on the decay rate: class 2 in underload. 10.5 Analysis of the decay rate: class 2 in overload. 10.6 Discussion of the results. 10.7 Delay asymptotics. 11 Explicit results for short-range dependent inputs. 11.1 Asymptotically linear variance some preliminaries. 11.2 Tandem queue with srd input. 11.3 Priority queue with srd input. 11.4 GPS queue with srd input. 11.5 Concluding remarks. 12 Brownian queues. 12.1 Single queue: detailed results. 12.2 Tandem: distribution of the downstream queue. 12.3 Tandem: joint distribution. Part C: Applications. 13 Weight setting in GPS. 13.1 An optimal partitioning approach to weight setting. 13.2 Approximation of the overflow probabilities. 13.3 Fixed weights. 13.4 Realizable region. 14 A link dimensioning formula and empirical support. 14.1 Objectives, modeling, and analysis. 14.2 Numerical study. 14.3 Empirical study. 14.4 Implementation aspects. 15 Link dimensioning: indirect variance estimation. 15.1 Theoretical foundations. 15.2 Implementation issues. 15.3 Error analysis of the inversion procedure. 15.4 Validation. 16 A framework for bandwidth trading. 16.1 Bandwidth trading. 16.2 Model and preliminaries. 16.3 Single-link network. 16.4 Gaussian traffic utility as a function of loss. 16.5 Sanov's theorem and its inverse. 16.6 Estimation of loss probabilities. 16.7 Numerical example. Bibliography. Index.