Ward Whitt - Priorities and Other...

Priorities and Other Non-FCFS Disciplines

Multiple Channel Queues in Heavy Traffic III: Random Server Selection. Advances in Applied Probability, vol. 2, No. 2, Autumn 1970, pp. 370-375.
Weak Convergence Theorems for Priority Queues: Preemptive-Resume Discipline. Journal of Applied Probability, vol. 8, No. 1, March 1971, pp. 74-94. [published PDF]
Deciding Which Queue to Join: Some Counterexamples. Operations Research, vol. 34, No. 1, January-February 1986, pp. 55-62. [published PDF]
An Extremal Property of the FIFO Discipline Via An Ordinal Version of L = W. Stochastic Models, vol. 5, No. 3, 1989, pp. 515-529 (with Shlomo Halfin).
Computing Distributions and Moments in Polling Models by Numerical Transform Inversion. Performance Evaluation, vol. 25, No. 4, 1996, pp. 267-292 (with Gagan L. Choudhury). [PostScript] [PDF] [published PDF]
Asymptotics for M/G/1 Low-Priority Waiting-Time Tail Probabilities. Proceedings of 34th Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, S. P. Meyn and W. K. & Jenkins (eds.) 1996, pp. 923-931 (with Joseph Abate).
Asymptotics for M/G/1 Low-Priority Waiting-Time Tail Probabilities. Queueing Systems, vol. 25, 1997, pp. 173-223. [published PDF]
Limits and Approximations for the M/G/1 LIFO Waiting-Time Distribution. Operations Research Letters, vol. 20, 1997, pp. 199-206 (with Joseph Abate). [PostScript] [PDF]
Extending the Effective-Bandwidth Concept to Networks with Priority Classes. IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 36, No 8, August 1998, pp. 78-84 (with Arthur W. Berger). [PostScript] [PDF] [PDF file from IEEE] [published PDF]
Effective Bandwidths with Priorities. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 6, No. 4, August 1998, pp. 447-460 (with Arthur W. Berger). [PostScript] [PDF] [PDF file from IEEE] [published PDF]
Periodic Load Balancing. Queueing Systems, vol. 30, Nos. 1-2, 1998, pp. 203-250 (with Gísli Hjálmtýsson). [PostScript] [PDF] [PDF]
Approximations for Periodic Load Balancing. 37th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Tampa, Florida (with Gísli Hjálmtýsson). [published PDF]
Workload Bounds in Fluid Models with Priorities. Performance Evaluation (with Arthur W. Berger). [PostScript] [PDF]
Predicting Response Times in Processor-Sharing Queues. In Proceedings of the Fields Institute Conference on Communication Networks, P. W. Glynn, D. J. MacDonald and S. J. Turner, (eds.) (with Amy R. Ward). [PostScript] [PDF]
The M/G/1 Processor-Sharing Queue with Long and Short Jobs. Unpublished report.