Control and recovery from rare congestion events in a large multi-server system

DOI10.1023/A:1019168821588zbMath0901.60067OpenAlexW2098892781MaRDI QIDQ1378852

Ward Whitt, N. G. Duffield

Publication date: 24 November 1998

Published in: Queueing Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1019168821588

zbMATH Keywords

large deviationsSanov's theoremtransient behaviorfluid approximationsmulti-server systemsfluid limitsoverload controlage distributionsresidual lifetimeslong-tail distributionshigh congestionrecovery from congestion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Queueing theory (aspects of probability theory) (60K25) Queues and service in operations research (90B22)

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