Queueing Theory and Teletraffic Theory

2004 fall

Seminar program

Tuesday, December 14, 2004: Institute seminar

14:00-15:00 Ilze Ziedins, University of Auckland, Auckland

Routing in parallel tandem queues with loss: individual and socially optimal policies

15:30-16:30 Anders Martin-Löf, University of Stockholm, Stockholm

Bose-Einstein condensation in queuing networks

Tuesday, November 30, 2004: Institute seminar

14:00-15:00 Michele Pagano, University of Pisa

Efficient estimation of Gaussian overflow probabilities

15:30-16:30 Olle Häggström, Chalmers University of Technology

An introduction to correlation inequalities for discrete systems

Thursday, November 25, 2004: Institute seminar

14:00-15:00 Gerhard Hooghiemstra, Delft University of Technology

Distances in random graphs with finite variance degrees

15:30-16:30 Volker Schmidt, Ulm University

Nonparametric morphological estimators in statistical image analysis

Tuesday, November 23, 2004: Institute seminar

14:00-15:00 Dmitri Znamenski, Eurandom, Eindhoven

Connectivity, cluster components, and distances in the power law random graph

15:30-16:30 Jeff Steif, Chalmers, Gothenburg

Exceptional times for dynamical percolation

Thursday, November 18, 2004: Institute seminar

14:00-15:00 Dieter Baum, Trier University

Spatial versions of the batch Markovian arrival process (Spatial BMAPs)

15:30-16:30 Hannu Reittu, VTT Technical Research Centre, Helsinki

Distance in a power law random graph, some notes on p2p networking

Tuesday, November 16, 2004: Institute seminar

14:00-15:00 Remco van der Hofstad, Eindhoven University of Technology

Random graphs as Internet models: finite mean and infinite variance degrees

Thursday, November 11, 2004: Institute seminar

14:00-15:00 Petteri Mannersalo, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

Blinking poisson Boolean model with applications to latency in networks

Tuesday, November 9, 2004: Institute seminar

14:00-15:00 Anders Martin-Löf, Stockholm University

Conny Palm and his pioneering work in queueing and teletraffic theory

15:30-16:30 Liu Yong, National University of Singapore

A calculus for stochastic quality of service analysis

Tuesday, November 2, 2004: Institute seminar

14:00-15:00 Damon Wischik, Trinity College, Cambridge

The calculus of hurstiness

15:30-16:30 Ryszard Szekli, Wroclaw University

Dependence ordering for Markov processes: queueing networks in view

Thursday, October 28, 2004: Institute seminar

14:00-15:00 Amit Bose, Carleton University, Ottawa

Analysis of manufacturing blocking systems with network calculus

Tuesday, October 26,2004: Institute seminar

14:00-15:00 Benoit Mandelbrot, Yale University, New Haven

Random fractal and multifractal functions

Thursday, October 21, 2004: Institute seminar

14:00-15:00 Gennady Samorodnitsky, Cornell University, Ithaca

Long strange segments of stochastic processes

15:30-16:30 Bert Zwart, Eindhoven University of Technology

Large deviations for processor sharing queues under heavy tails

Tuesday, October 19, 2004: Institute seminar

14:00-15:00 Vinay Ribeiro, Rice University, Houston

Multiscale methods for network traffic

15:30-16:30 Armand Makowski, University of Maryland, College Park

Bounding superposed on-off sources -- Variability ordering and majorization to the rescue

Thursday, October 14, 2004: Institute seminar

14:00-15:00 Bo Friis Nielsen, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby

Sensitivity analysis of queueing systems using Markovian arrival processes

15:30-16:30 Bernardo D'Auria, University of Salerno

Output flows for fluid queues and networks

Tuesday, October 12, 2004: Institute seminar

14:00-15:00 Raimundas Gaigalas, Uppsala University

A Poisson bridge between fractional Brownian motion and stable Lévy motion

15:30-16:30 Alan Weiss, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill

Large deviations with diminishing rates

Thursday, September 30, 2004: Institute seminar

14:00-15:00 Vinod Sharma, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Providing quality of service in internet

15:30-16:30 Mats Pihlsgård, Lund University

Loss rate for Lévy processes with two reflecting barriers

Tuesday, September 28, 2004: Institute seminar

14:00-15:00 Ilkka Norros, VTT Helsinki

Large deviations for infinite intersections of events in Gaussian processes

15:30-16:30 Krishanu Maulik, Eurandom, Eindhoven

Tail asymptotics for exponential functionals of Lévy processes

Thursday, September 23, 2004: Institute seminar

14:00-15:00 Sergei Zuyev, University of Strathclyde

Measures everywhere

15:30-16:30 Alexandre Proutière, France Telecom R&D, Paris

Stochastic bounds in queueing networks - applications to wired and wireless data network modeling

Tuesday, September 21, 2004: Institute seminar

14:00-15:00 Jorma Virtamo, Helsinki University of Technology

Balanced fairness - computational aspects and some extensions

15:30-16:30 Markus Fidler, Aachen University

Network calculus fundamentals and new approaches to aggregate scheduling

Thursday, September 16, 2004: Institute seminar

14:00-15:00 Peter Glynn, Stanford University

Distributed algorithms for wireless networks

15:30-16:30 Lasse Leskelä, Helsinki University of Technology

Stabilization of an overloaded queueing network

Tuesday, September 14, 2004: Institute seminar

14:00-15:00 Karl Sigman, Columbia University

Unstable region for a simple FIFO multiclass queueing network

15:30-16:30 Matthieu Jonckheere, France Telecom R&D, Paris

Insensitive load balancing

Thursday, September 9, 2004: Institute seminar

14:00-15:00 Richard Serfozo, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta

Response times in M/M/s fork-join networks

15:30-16:30 Sem Borst, CWI Amsterdam

Flow-level performance of channel-aware scheduling algorithms in wireless data networks

Tuesday, September 7, 2004: Institute seminar

14:00-15:00 Krzysztof Debicki, Wroclaw University

Gaussian processes and queueing theory

15:30-16:30 Evsey Morozov, Petrozavodsk State University

Weakly regenerative queueing processes: stability analysis and simulation

Thursday, September 2, 2004: Institute seminar

14:00-15:00 Samuli Aalto, Helsinki

M/G/1/MLPS compared to M/G/1/PS

15:30-16:30 Jacques Resing, Eindhoven

A two-station queueing network with coupled processors