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Providing Multiple Grades of Service and Protection Against Overloads

Efficiently Providing Multiple Grades of Service with Protection Against Overloads in Shared Resources. AT&T Technical Journal, vol. 74, No. 4, 1995, pp. 50-63 (with Gagan L. Choudhury and Kin K. Leung). [published PDF]
Computing Transient and Steady-State Distributions in Polling Models by Numerical Transform Inversion. IEEE International Conference on Communications, Seattle, WA, June 1995, pp. 803-809 (with Gagan L. Choudhury). [published PDF]
An Inversion Algorithm to Calculate Blocking Probabilities in Loss Networks with State-Dependent Rates. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 3, No. 5, 1995, pp. 585-601 (with Gagan L. Choudhury and Kin K. Leung). [PostScript] [PDF] [ published PDF]
An Algorithm to Calculate Blocking Probabilities in Multi-Rate Multi-Class Multi-Resource Loss Models. Advances in Applied Probability, vol. 27, 1995, pp. 1104-1143 (with Gagan L. Choudhury and Kin K. Leung). [PostScript] [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).
Computing Distributions and Moments in Polling Models by Numerical Transform Inversion. Performance Evaluation, vol. 25, No. 4, 1997, pp. 267-292 (with Gagan L. Choudhury). [published PDF]
Asymptotics for M/G/1 Low-Priority Waiting-Time Tail Probabilities. Queueing Systems, vol. 25, 1997, pp. 173-223 (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]
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]
Resource Sharing for Book-Ahead and Instantaneous-Request Calls. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 7, No. 1, February 1999, pp. 10-22 (with Albert G. Greenberg and Rayadurgam Srikant). [PostScript] [PDF] [published PDF]
Partitioning Customers into Service Groups. Management Science, vol. 45, No. 11, November 1999, pp. 1579-1592. [PostScript] [PDF]
Resource Sharing for Book-Ahead and Instantaneous-Request Calls Using a CLT Approximation. Telecommunication Systems (with Riyadurgam Srikant). [PostScript] [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]