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Stochastic concavity of throughput in series of queues with finite buffers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

Venkat Anantharam*
Affiliation:
Cornell University
Pantelis Tsoucas*
Affiliation:
IBM Research Division
*
Postal address: School of Electrical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.
∗∗Postal address: IBM Research Division, P.O. Box 704, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA.
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Abstract

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Stochastic concavity of the output process with respect to buffer sizes is established in a series of ·/M/1/B queues with loss at the first node.

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Letters to the Editor
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1990 

References

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