Ward Whitt - Papers 1990-1999

Papers 1990-1999

1990

On Arrivals That See Time Averages. Operations Research, vol. 38, No. 1, 1990, pp. 156-172 (with Benjamin Melamed). [published PDF]
On Arrivals That See Time Averages: A Martingale Approach. Journal of Applied Probability vol. 27, No. 2, 1990, pp. 376-384. (with Benjamin Melamed)
Diffusion Approximations for Queues with Server Vacations. Advances in Applied Probability, vol. 22, No. 3, 1990, pp. 706-729. (with Offer Kella) [published 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.
The Heavy-Traffic Bottleneck Phenomenon in Open Queueing Networks. Operations Research Letters, vol. 9, No. 6, 1990, pp. 355-362 (with S. Suresh). [published PDF]
Arranging Queues in Series: A Simulation Experiment. Management Science , vol. 36, No. 2, 1990, pp. 1080-1091 (with S. Suresh). [PostScript] [PDF]
A Multi-Class Input Regulation Throttle. Proceedings of the 29th IEEE Conference on Decision, and Control, December 1990, pp. 2106-2111. (with Arthur W. Berger) [published PDF]
1991
Decompositions of the M/M/1 Transition Function. Queueing Systems, vol. 9, No. 3, 1991, & pp. 323-336. (with Joseph Abate and Masaaki Kijima)
A New View of the Heavy-Traffic Limit for Infinite-Server Queues. Advances in Applied Probability, vol. 23, No. 1, 1991, pp. 188-209. (with Peter W. Glynn)
Departures from Many Queues in Series. Annals of Applied Probability, vol. 1, No. 4, 1991, pp. 546-572. (with Peter W. Glynn) [PDF]
Estimating the Asymptotic Variance with Batch Means. Operations Research Letters, vol. 10, 1991, pp. 431-435. (with Peter W. Glynn) [PostScript] [PDF]
Queues with Server Vacations and Lévy Processes with Secondary Jump Input. Annals of Applied Probability , vol. 1, No. 1, 1991, pp. 104-117. (with Offer Kella) [PostScript] [PDF]
Two Fundamental Principles of Queueing Theory. Queueing, Performance and Control in ATM, Proceedings of 13th International Teletraffic Congress, J. W. Cohen and C. D. Pack (eds.), Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 151-156, 1991.
A Review of L = W and Extensions. Queueing Systems, vol. 9, No. 3, 1991, pp. 235-268. [published PDF] (Correction Note on L = W. Queueing Systems, vol. 12, No. 4, 1992, pp. 431-432. [published PDF] Results are correct; minor but important change needed in proofs.)
The Pointwise Stationary Approximation for M_t/M_t/s Queues is Asymptotically Correct as the Rates Increase. Management Science, vol. 37, No. 3, 1991, pp. 307-314. [published PDF]
The Efficiency of One Long Run Versus Independent Replications in Steady-State Simulation. Management Science, vol. 37, No. 6, 1991, pp. 645-666. [published PDF]
Investigating Dependence in Packet Queues with the Index of Dispersion for Work. IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 39, No. 8, 1991, pp. 1231-1244 (with Kerry W. Fendick and Vikram R. Saksena). [published PDF]
1992
The Fourier-Series Method for Inverting Transforms of Probability Distributions. Queueing Systems, vol. 10, No. 1, 1992, pp. 5-88. (with Joseph Abate) [published PDF]
Numerical Inversion of Probability Generating Functions. Operations Research Letters, vol. 12, No. 4, 1992, pp. 245-251. (with Joseph Abate) [published PDF]
Solving Probability Transform Functional Equations for Numerical Inversion. Operations Research Letters, vol. 12, 1992, pp. 275-281. (with Joseph Abate) [published PDF]
The Asymptotic Validity of Sequential Stopping Rules in Stochastic Simulations. Annals of Applied Probability, vol. 2, No. 1, 1992, pp. 180-198. (with Peter W. Glynn) [published PDF]
The Asymptotic Efficiency of Simulation Estimators. Operations Research, vol. 40, No. 3, 1992, pp. 505-520. (with Peter W. Glynn) [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]
A Tandem Fluid Network with Lévy Input. Queueing and Related Models, I. Basawa and U. N. Bhat eds., Oxford University Press, 1992, pp. 112-128. (with Offer Kella) [published PDF]
The Brownian Approximation for Rate-Control Throttles and the G/G/1/C Queue. Journal of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems, vol. 2, No. 1, 1992, pp. 7-60. (with Arthur W. Berger)
Comparisons of Multi-Server Queues with Finite Waiting Rooms. Stochastic Models, vol. 8, No. 4, 1992, pp. 719-732. (with Arthur W. Berger)
The Impact of a Job Buffer in a Token-Bank Rate-Control Throttle. Stochastic Models, vol. 8, No. 4, 1992, pp. 685-717. (with Arthur W. Berger)
H = G and the Palm Transformation. Advances in Applied Probability, vol. 24, 1992, pp. 755-758.
Asymptotic Formulas for Markov Processes with Applications to Simulation. Operations Research, vol. 40, No. 2, 1992, pp. 279-291. [published PDF]
Counterexamples for Comparisons of Queues with Finite Waiting Rooms. Queueing Systems, vol. 10, No. 3, 1992, pp. 271-278.
1993
Tail Probabilities with Statistical Multiplexing and Effective Bandwidths in Multiclass Queues. Telecommunication Systems, vol. 2, 1993, pp. 71-107. [published PDF]
Calculation of the GI/G/1 steady-State Waiting-Time Distribution and its Cumulants from Pollaczek's Formula. Archiv für Elektronik und Übertragungstechnik, vol. 47, No. 5/6, 1993, pp. 311-321 (with Joseph Abate and Gagan L. Choudhury). [published PDF]
Estimating Customer and Time Averages. Operations Research, vol. 41, No. 2, 1993, pp. 400-408 (with Peter W. Glynn and Benjamin Melamed). [published PDF]
Limit Theorems for Cumulative Processes. Stochastic Processes and Their Applications, vol. 47, 1993, pp. 299-314. (with Peter W. Glynn) [published PDF]
Heavy-Traffic Asymptotic Expansions for the Asymptotic Decay Rates in the BMAP/G/1 Queue. Proceedings of the ITC Seminar on Teletraffic Analysis Methods for Current and Future Telecom Networks, Bangalore, India, November 1993, pp. 129-136. (with Gagan L. Choudhury)
Computing Transient Distributions in General Single-Server Queues. Proceedings of IEEE Globecom 93, No. 29.1, 1993, pp. 1045-1050 (with Gagan L. Choudhury and David M. Lucantoni). [published PDF]
The Physics of The M_t/G/infty Queue. Operations Research, vol. 41, No. 4, 1993, pp. 731-742 (with Stephen G. Eick and William A. Massey). [published PDF]
M_t/G/infty Queues with Sinusoidal Arrival Rates. Management Science, vol. 39, No. 2, 1993, pp. 241-252 (with Stephen G. Eick and William A. Massey). [published PDF]
Networks of Infinite-Server Queues with Nonstationary Poisson Input. Queueing Systems, vol. 13, No. 1, 1993, pp. 183-250. (with William A. Massey)
A Probabilistic Generalization of Taylor's Theorem. Statistics and Probability Letters, vol. 16, No. 1, 1993, pp. 51-54. (with William A. Massey) [published 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)
Large Fluctuations in a Deterministic Multiclass Network of Queues, Management Science, vol. 39, No. 8, 1993, pp. 1020-1028. [publishedPDF]
Diffusion Approximations for Open Queueing Networks with Service Interruptions. Queueing Systems, vol. 13, No. 4, 1993, pp. 335-359 (with Hong Chen).
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). [PDF]
Approximations for the GI/G/m Queue. Production and Operations Management, vol. 2, No. 2, 1993, pp. 114-161.
1994
Asymptotics for Steady-State Tail Probabilities in Structured Markov Queueing Models. Stochastic Models, vol. 10, No. 1, 1994, pp. 99-143 (with Joseph Abate and Gagan L. Choudhury). [PDF]
Waiting-Time Tail Probabilities in Queues with Long-Tail Service-Time Distributions. Queueing Systems, vol. 16, 1994, pp. 311-338 (with Joseph Abate and Gagan L. Choudhury). [published PDF]
Transient Behavior of the M/G/1 Workload Process. Operations Research, vol. 42, No. 4, 1994, pp. 750-764. (with Joseph Abate) [published PDF]
A Heavy-Traffic Expansion for the Asymptotic Decay Rates of Tail Probabilities in Multi-Channel Queues. Operations Research Letters, vol. 15, 1994, pp. 223-230. (with Joseph Abate) [PostScript] [PDF]
Logarithmic Asymptotics for Steady-State Tail Probabilities in a Single-Server Queue. Studies in Applied Probability, Papers in Honour of Lajos Takàcs, J. Galambos and J. Gani (eds.), Applied Probability Trust, Sheffield, England, 1994, pp. 131-156. (with Peter W. Glynn) [published PDF]
Large Deviations Behavior of Counting Processes and Their Inverses. Queueing Systems, vol. 17, 1994, pp. 107-128. (with Peter W. Glynn) [published PDF]
The Transient BMAP/G/1 Queue. Stochastic Models, vol. 10, No. 1, 1994, pp. 145-182 (with Gagan L. Choudhury and David M. Lucantoni). [published PDF]
Heavy-Traffic Asymptotic Expansions for the Asymptotic Decay Rates in the & BMAP/G/1 Queue. Stochastic Models, vol. 10, No. 2, 1994, pp. 453-498. (with Gagan L. Choudhury) [PostScript] [PDF]
On the Effectiveness of Effective Bandwidths for Admission Control in ATM Networks. The Fundamental Role of Teletraffic in the Evolution of Telecommunications Networks, Proceedings of the 14th International Teletraffic Congress, J. Labetoulle and J. W. Roberts (eds.), Elsevier, Amsterdam, vol. 1a, 1994, pp. 411-420 (with Gagan L. Choudhury and David M. Lucantoni).
Numerical Transform Inversion to Analyze Teletraffic Models. The Fundamental Role of Teletraffic in the Evolution of Telecommunications Networks, Proceedings of the 14th International Teletraffic Congress, J. Labetoulle and J. W. Roberts (eds.), Elsevier, Amsterdam, vol. 1b, 1994, 1043-1052 (with Gagan L. Choudhury and David M. Lucantoni). [PostScript] [PDF]
Multi-Dimensional Transform Inversion with Applications to the Transient M/G/1 Queue. Annals of Applied Probability vol. 4, 1994, pp. 719-740 (with Gagan L. Choudhury and David M. Lucantoni). [published PDF]
An Algorithm for Closed Queueing Networks Based on Numerical Transform Inversion. Proceedings of the 1994 Conference on Information Science and Systems, ed. H. Kobayashi, Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, pp. 7-11 (with Gagan L. Choudhury and Kin K. Leung). [PostScript] [PDF]
An Algorithm for Product-Form Loss Networks Based on Numerical Inversion of Generating Functions. Proceedings IEEE Globecom `94, 1994, pp. 1123-1128 (with Gagan L. Choudhury and Kin K. Leung). [published PDF]
An Algorithm to Compute Blocking Probabilities in Multi-Rate Multi-Class Multi-Resource Loss Models. Computer-Aided Modeling, Analysis and Design of Communication Links and Networks, 1994 (CAMAD '94, 1994, (with Gagan L. Choudhury and Kin K. Leung). [published PDF]
The Pros and Cons of a Job Buffer in a Token-Bank Rate-Control Throttle. IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 42, No. 3, 1994, pp. 857-861. (with Arthur W. Berger) [published PDF]
Asymptotics for Open-Loop Window Flow Control. Journal of Applied Mathematics and Stochastic Analysis, special issue honoring L. Takàcs, vol. 7, 1994, pp. 337-356. (with Arthur W. Berger) [published PDF]
Unstable Asymptotics for Nonstationary Queues. Mathematics of Operations Research, vol. 19, No. 2, 1994, pp. 267-291. (with William A. Massey) [PostScript] [PDF]
On the Modified-Offered-Load Approximation for the Nonstationary Erlang Loss Model. The Fundamental Role of Teletraffic in the Evolution of Telecommunications Networks, Proceedings of the 14th International Teletraffic Congress, J. Labetoulle and J. W. Roberts (eds.), Elsevier, Amsterdam, vol. 1a, 1994, pp. 145-154. (with William A. Massey)
The Highway PALM: A Stochastic Model to Capture Space and Time Dynamics in Wireless Communication Systems. The Fundamental Role of Teletraffic in the Evolution of Telecommunications Networks, Proceedings of the 14th International Teletraffic Congress, J. Labetoulle and J. W. Roberts (eds.), Elsevier, Amsterdam, vol. 1a, 1994, pp. 503-512. (with William A. Massey)
Traffic Models for Wireless Communication Networks. IEEE Infocom `94 Proceedings, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1994, pp. 1029-1037 (with Kin K. Leung and William A. Massey). [published PDF]
Traffic Models for Wireless Communication Networks. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication, vol. 12, No. 8, 1994, pp. 1353-1364 (with Kin K. Leung and William A. Massey). [published PDF]
A Stochastic Model to Capture Space and Time Dynamics in Wireless Communication Systems. Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, vol. 8, 1994, pp. 541-569. (with William A. Massey) [PDF]
An Analysis of the Modified Offered Load Approximation for the Nonstationary Erlang Loss Model. Annals of Applied Probability, vol. 4, 1994, pp. 1145-1160. (with William A. Massey) [PostScript] [PDF]
Towards Better Multi-Class Parametric-Decomposition Approximations for Open Queueing Networks. Annals of Operations Research, vol. 48, 1994, pp. 221-248. [PostScript] [PDF]
1995
Numerical Inversion of Laplace Transforms of Probability Distributions. ORSA Journal on Computing, vol. 7, 1995, pp. 36-43. (with Joseph Abate) [published PDF]
Exponential Approximations for Tail Probabilities in Queues, I: Waiting Times. Operations Research, vol. 43, 1995, pp. 885-901 (with Joseph Abate and Gagan L. Choudhury). [published PDF]
Limits and Approximations for the Busy-Period Distribution in Single-Server Queues. Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, vol. 9, 1995, pp. 581-602. (with Joseph Abate) [PostScript] [PDF]
Asymptotic Analysis of Tail Probabilities Based on the Computation of Moments. Annals of Applied Probability, vol. 5, 1995, pp. 983-1007 (with Joseph Abate, Gagan L. Choudhury and David M. Lucantoni). [published PDF]
Heavy-Traffic Extreme-Value Limits for Queues. Operations Research Letters, vol. 18, 1995, pp. 107-111. (with Peter W. Glynn) [PostScript] [PDF]
Resource-Sharing Models with State-Dependent Arrivals of Batches. Computations with Markov Chains, W. J. Stewart, ed., Kluwer, Boston, 1995, pp. 255-282 (with Gagan L. Choudhury and Kin K. Leung). [published PDF]
Q²: A New Performance Analysis Tool Exploiting Numerical Transform Inversion. Proceedings of Third International Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, (MASCOTS `95), Durham, NC, January 1995, pp. 411-415. (with Gagan L. Choudhury) [PostScript] [PDF] [published PDF]
An Inversion Algorithm for Loss Networks with State Dependent Rates. Proceedings of IEEE Infocom `95, 1995, pp. 513-521 (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) [PDF file from IEEE] [published PDF]
Calculating Normalization Constants of Closed Queueing Networks by Numerically Inverting Their Generating Functions. Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery, vol. 42, 1995, pp. 935-970 (with Gagan L. Choudhury and Kin K. Leung). [PostScript] [PDF] From ACM Digital Library.
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]
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). [ 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 Kin K. Leung). [published PDF]
Calculating the M/G/1 Busy-Period Density and the LIFO Waiting-Time Distribution by Direct Numerical Transform Inversion. Operations Research Letters, vol. 18, 1995, pp. 113-119 (with Joseph Abate).
A Comparison of the Sliding Window and the Leaky Bucket. Queueing Systems, vol. 20, 1995, pp. 117-138. (with Arthur W. Berger)
Maximum Values in Queueing Processes. Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, vol. 9, 1995, pp. 375-409. (with Arthur W. Berger) [PostScript] [PDF]
Sensitivity to the Service-Time Distribution in the Nonstationary Erlang Loss Model. Management Science, vol. 41, No. 6, 1995, pp. 1107-1116 (with Jimmie L. Davis and Bill Massey). [published PDF]
Piecewise-Linear Diffusion Processes. Advances in Queueing, J. Dshalalow, ed., CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 1995, pp. 463-480 (with Sid Browne). [published PDF]
Recent Asymptotic Results in the Probabilistic Analysis of Schedule Makespans. Scheduling Theory and its Applications, P. Chrètienne, E. G. Coffman, Jr., J. K. Lenstra and Z. Liu (eds.), Wiley, New York, 1995, pp. 15-31 (with E. G. Coffman, Jr.).
Simulation Run Length Planning for Stochastic Loss Models. Proceedings of 1995 Winter Simulation Conference, C. Alexopoulos, K. Kang, W. R. Lilegdon and D. Goldsman, eds., 1995, pp. 1384-1391 (with Rayadurgam Srikant).
Variability Functions for Parametric-Decomposition Approximations of Queueing Networks. Management Science, vol. 41, No. 10, 1995, pp. 1704-1715. [PostScript] [PDF]
Calculating the M/G/1 Busy-Period Density and the LIFO Waiting-Time Distribution by Direct Numerical Transform Inversion. Operations Research Letters, vol. 18, 1995, pp. 113-119 (with Joseph Abate and Gagan L. Choudhury).
1996
An Operational Calculus for Probability Distributions Via Laplace Transforms. Advances in Applied Probability, vol. 28, 1996, pp. 75-113. (with Joseph Abate) [published PDF]
Exponential Approximations for Tail Probabilities in Queues, II: Sojourn Time and Workload. Operations Research, vol. 44, 1996, pp. 758-763 (with Joseph Abate and Gagan L. Choudhury). [published PDF]
On the Laguerre Method for Numerically Inverting Laplace Transforms. INFORMS Journal on Computing, vol. 8, 1996, pp. 413-427 (with Joseph Abate and Gagan L. Choudhury). [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)
Squeezing the Most Out of ATM. IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 44, No. 2, 1996, pp. 203-217 (with Gagan L. Choudhury and David M. Lucantoni). [PostScript] [PDF] [published PDF]
Stability and Structural Properties of Stochastic Fluid Networks. Journal of Applied Probability, vol. 33, 1996, pp. 1169-1180. (with Offer Kella) [PostScript] [PDF]
Estimating the Parameters of a Nonhomogeneous Poisson Process with Linear Rate. Telecommunication Systems, vol. 5, 1996, pp. 361-388 (with William A. Massey and Geraldine A. Parker). [published PDF]
Server Staffing to Meet Time-Varying Demand. Management Science, vol. 42, No. 10, 1996, pp. 1383-1394 (with Otis B. Jennings, Avishai Mandelbaum and William A. Massey). [published PDF]
Stationary-Process Approximations for the Nonstationary Erlang Loss Model. Operations Research, vol. 44, 1996, pp. 976-983. [published PDF] (with William A. Massey)
Stochastic Limit Laws for Schedule Makespans. Stochastic Models, vol. 12, No. 2, 1996, pp. 215-243 (with E. G. Coffman, Jr. and Leopold Flatto).
Simulation Run Lengths to Estimate Blocking Probabilities. ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS), vol. 6, No. 1, January 1996, pp. 7-52 (with Rayadurgam Srikant). [PDF]
Portfolio Choice and The Bayesian Kelly Criterion. Journal of Applied Probability, vol. 28, 1996, pp. 1145-1176 (with Sid Browne). [published PDF]
1997
Asymptotics for M/G/1 Low-Priority Waiting-Time Tail Probabilities. Queueing Systems, vol. 25, 1997, pp. 173-223. (with Joseph Abate) [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) [published PDF]
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]
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]
Numerical Solution of Piecewise-Stationary M_t/G_t/1 Queues. Operations Research, vol.~45, No.~3, 1997, pp. 451-463,(with Gagan L. Choudhury and David M. Lucantoni). [published PDF]
Scaling for Numerical Transform Inversion to Analyze Teletraffic Models. Teletraffic Contributions for the Information Age, Proceedings of ITC 15, V. Ramaswami and P. E. Wirth (eds.), Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1997, pp. 933-942. (with Gagan L. Choudhury)
Probabilistic Scaling for the Numerical Inversion of Non-Probability Transforms. INFORMS Journal on Computing, vol. 9, No. 2, 1997, pp. 175-184. (with Gagan L. Choudhury) [PostScript] [PDF]
Long-Tail Buffer-Content Distributions in Broadband Networks. Performance Evaluation, Vol. 30, 1997, pp. 177-190. (with Gagan L. Choudhury) [published PDF]
The Time-Dependent Erlang Loss Model with Retrials. Proceedings of INFORMS Telecommunications Conference, Telecommunications Systems, R. B. Cooperand and R. Doverspike (eds.), vol. 7, 1997, pp. 253-265 (with Nathaniel Grier, William A. Massey and Tyrone McKoy). [PostScript] [PDF]
Peak Congestion in Multi-Server Service Systems with Slowly Varying Arrival Rates. Queueing Systems, vol. 25, 1997, pp. 157-172. (with William A. Massey) [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 A. McCalla).
Fitting Mixtures of Exponentials to Long-Tail Distributions to Analyze Network Performance Models. IEEE Infocom `97, 1997, pp. 1098-1106 (with Anja Feldmann). [published PDF]
Recovery from Congestion in a Large Multi-Server System. Teletraffic Contributions for the Information Age, Proceedings of ITC 15, V. Ramaswami and P. E. Wirth (eds.), Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1997, pp. 371-380 (with Nicholas G. Duffield).
Control and Recovery from Rare Congestion Events in a Large Multi-Server System. Queueing Systems, vol. 26, 1997, pp. 69-104 (with Nicholas G. Duffield). [published PDF]
Functional Large Deviations Principles for First-Passage-Time Processes. Annals of Applied Probability, vol. 7, No. 2, 1997, pp. 362-381 (with Anatolii Puhalskii).
1998
Numerical Inversion of Multidimensional Laplace Transforms by the Laguerre Method. Performance Evaluation, vol. 31, 1998, pp. 229-243 (with Joseph Abate and Gagan L. Choudhury). [published PDF]
Calculating Transient Characteristics of the Erlang Loss Model by Numerical Transform Inversion. Stochastic Models, vol. 14, No. 3, 1998, pp. 663-680. (with Joseph Abate) [PostScript] [PDF]
Modeling Service-Time Distributions with Non-Exponential Tails: Beta Mixtures of Exponentials. Stochastic Models, vol. 15, No. 3, 1999, pp. 517-546. (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) [published PDF]
Effective Bandwidths with Priorities. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 6, No. 4, August 1998, pp. 447-460 (with Arthur W. Berger). [published PDF]
Uniform Acceleration Expansions for Markov Chains with Time-Varying Rates. Annals of Applied Probability, vol. 9, No. 4, 1998. (with William A. Massey) [published PDF]
Periodic Load Balancing. Queueing Systems, vol. 30, Nos. 1-2, 1998, pp. 203-250 (with Gísli Hjálmtýsson). [published PDF]
Approximations for Periodic Load Balancing. 37th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Tampa, Florida (with Gísli Hjálmtýsson).
Fitting Mixtures of Exponentials to Long-Tail Distributions to Analyze Network Performance Models. Performance Evaluation, vol. 31, 1998, pp. 245-279 (with Anja Feldmann). [published PDF]
A Source Traffic Model and its Transient Analysis for Network Control. Stochastic Models, vol. 14, Nos. 1 and 2, 1998, pp. 51-78 (with Nicholas G. Duffield). [PostScript] [PDF]
Large Deviations for Inverse Processes with Nonlinear Scalings. Annals of Applied Probability, vol. 9, No. 4, 1998 (with Nicholas G. Duffield).
Functional Large Deviation Principles for Waiting and Departure Processes. Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, vol. 12, 1998, pp. 479-507 (with Anatolii Puhalskii).
Verifying Cell Loss Requirements in High-Speed Communication Networks. Journal of Applied Mathematics and Stochastic Analysis, special issue dedicated to R. Syski, vol. 11, No. 3, Fall 1998, pp. 319-338. (with Kerry W. Fendick) [PostScript] [PDF]
1999
Improving Service By Informing Customers About Anticipated Delays. Management Science, vol. 45, No. 2, February 1999, pp. 192-207. [published PDF]
Predicting Queueing Delays. Management Science, vol. 45, No. 6, June 1999, pp. 870-888. [published PDF]
Dynamic Staffing in a Telephone Call Center Aiming to Immediately Answer All Calls. Operations Research Letters, vol. 24, June 1999, pp. 205-212. [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). [published PDF]
Modeling Service-Time Distributions with Non-Exponential Tails: Beta Mixtures of Exponentials. Stochastic Models, vol. 15, No. 3, 1999, pp. 517-546 (with Joseph Abate). [PDF]
Explicit M/G/1 Waiting-Time Distributions for a Class of Long-Tail Service-Time Distributions. Operations Research Letters, vol. 25, No. 1, August 1999, pp. 25-31 (with Joseph Abate). [published PDF]
An Introduction to Numerical Transform Inversion and its Application to Probability Models, in Computational Probability, W. Grassman (ed.), Kluwer, Boston, 1999, pp. 257-323 (with Joseph Abate and Gagan L. Choudhury). [PDF]
Infinite-Series Representations of Laplace Transforms of Probability Density Functions for Numerical Inversion. Journal of Operations Research Society of Japan, vol. 42, No. 3, September 1999, pp. 268-285. (with Joseph Abate) [published PDF]
Computing Laplace Transforms for Numerical Inversion Via Continued Fractions. INFORMS Journal on Computing, vol. 11, No. 4, Fall 1999, pp. 394-405. (with Joseph Abate) [published PDF]
Variance Reduction in Simulations of Loss Models. Operations Research, vol. 47, No. 4, July-August 1999, pp. 509-523 (with Rayadurgam Srikant). [published PDF]
Using Different Response-Time Requirements to Smooth Time-Varying Demand for Service. Operations Research Letters, vol. 24, Nos. 1-2, February-March 1999, pp. 1-10. [PDF]
Linear Stochastic Fluid Networks. Journal of Applied Probability, vol. 36, No. 1, March 1999, pp. 244-260 (with Offer Kella). [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, 1999 (with Peter W. Glynn). [PDF]
Decomposition Approximations for Time-Dependent Markovian Queueing Networks. Operations Research Letters, vol. 24, April 1999, pp. 97-103. [PDF]
Partitioning Customers into Service Groups. Management Science, vol. 45, No. 11, November 1999, pp. 1579-1592. [published PDF]

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