Multiaccess, Reservations & Queues

• Main Authors: Denteneer, Dee (Author), Leeuwaarden, Johan S. H. van (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Series: Philips Research Book Series, 10
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer software > Reusability.; Computer organization.; Computer communication systems.; Algebra.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Computer mathematics.; Computer Science.; Computer Communication Networks.; Performance and Reliability.; Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks.; Computational Science and Engineering.; Applications of Mathematics.

Reservation procedures constitute the core of many popular data transmission protocols. They consist of two steps: A request phase in which a station reserves the communication channel and a transmission phase in which the actual data transmission takes place. Such procedures are often applied in co...

Table of Contents:

• Prologue
• Multiaccess in Cable Networks
• Key Models
• Contention Trees
• Basic Properties of Contention Trees
• Delay Models for Contention Trees in Closed Populations
• The Repairman Model with Gros
• Bulk Service
• Methodology
• Periodic Scheduling
• Reservations with Transmission Delays
• Shared Service Capacity
• A Tandem Queue with Coupled Processors
• A Two-Station Network with Coupled Processors
• Epilogue
• Cable Networks Revisited.