Ward Whitt - Other Queueing Topics

Other Queueing Topics

The Stationary Distribution of a Stochastic Clearing Process. Operations Research, vol. 29, No. 2, March-April 1981, pp. 294-308. [published PDF]
The Amount of Overtaking in a Network of Queues. Networks, vol. 14, No. 3, Fall 1984, pp. 411-426. [published PDF]
Deciding Which Queue to Join: Some Counterexamples. Operations Research, vol. 34, No. 1, January-February 1986, pp. 55-62. [published PDF]
Estimating Average Production Intervals Using Inventory Measurements: Little's Law for Partially Observable Processes. Operations Research, vol. 36, No. 2, March-April 1988, pp. 208-223 (with Ardavan Nozari).
Limits for Queues as the Waiting Room Grows. Queueing Systems, vol. 5, No. 4, 1989, pp. 381-392 (with Daniel P. Heyman). [PostScript] [PDF]
Queues with Service Times and Interarrival Times Depending Linearly and Randomly Upon Waiting Times. Queueing Systems , vol. 6, No. 4, 1990, pp. 335-351.
Departures from Many Queues in Series. Annals of Applied Probability, vol. 1, No. 4, 1991, pp. 546-572. [published PDF]
Queueing Theory. McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1991, pp. 377-383 (with R. C. Larson, M. A. Wortman and R. L. Disney).
Understanding the Efficiency of Multi-Server Service Systems. Management Science, vol. 38, No. 5, 1992, pp. 708-723. understanding92.pdf">[published PDF]
A Storage Model with a Two-State Random Environment. Operations Research, vol. 40, Supplement 2, 1992, pp. S257-S262 (with Offer Kella). [PostScript] [PDF]
Useful Martingales for Stochastic Storage Processes with Lévy Input. Journal of Applied Probability, vol. 29, No. 2, 1992, pp. 396-403 (with Offer Kella). [published PDF]
Using Distributed-Event Parallel Simulation to Study Many Queues in Series. Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, vol. 7, No. 2, 1993, pp. 159-186 (with Albert G. Greenberg and Otmar Schlunk). [PostScript] [PDF]
The Highway PALM: A Stochastic Model to Capture Space and Time Dynamics in Wireless Communication Systems. Proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, University of Illinois, September 1993, pp. 859-867 (with William A. Massey).
Maximum Values in Queueing Processes. Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, vol. 9, 1995, pp. 375-409 (with Arthur W. Berger). [PostScript] [PDF]
Fluid and Diffusion Limits for Queues in Slowly Changing Random Environments. Stochastic Models, vol. 13, No. 1, 1997, pp. 121-146 (with Gagan Choudhury, Avishai Mandelbaum and Martin I. Reiman). [published PDF]
Applications of the Infinite-Server Queue to the Management of Private Line Services. Proceedings of 1997 AT&T Services and Infrastructure Symposium (SIPS-97), Middletown, NJ, November 18-19, 1997, pp. 132-141 (with William A. Massey and Clement McCalla).
Periodic Load Balancing. Queueing Systems, vol. 30, Nos. 1-2, 1998, pp. 203-250 (with Gísli Hjálmtýsson). [PostScript] [PDF]
Approximations for Periodic Load Balancing. 37th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Tampa, Florida, 1998 (with Gísli Hjálmtýsson).
Using Different Reponse-Time Requirements to Smooth Time-Varying Demand for Service. Operations Research Letters, vol. 24, Nos. 1-2, February-March 1999, pp. 1-10. [PostScript] [PDF]
Linear Stochastic Fluid Networks. Journal of Applied Probability, vol. 36, No. 1, March 1999, pp. 244-260 (with Offer Kella). [PostScript] [PDF]
Winning the Hand of the Princess Saralinda. Chapter 16, pp. 231-246 in Appied Probability and Stochastic Processes, Festschrift for Julian Keilson, J. G. Shanthikumar and U. Sumita (eds.), Kluwer, Boston (with Peter W. Glynn). [PostScript] [PDF]
Partitioning Customers into Service Groups. Management Science, vol. 45, No. 11, November 1999, pp. 1579-1592. [published PDF]
A Time-Dependent Queueing Network Model to Describe the Life-Cycle Dynamics of a Family of Private-Line Telecommunications Services. Submitted to Telecommunication Systems (with Clement McCalla). [PostScript] [PDF]