Polling systems

Motivated by token-ring local area networks, I have been interested in performance evaluation, optimization and stability analysis of polling systems.

Papers:

[1] A. Khamisy, E. Altman and M. Sidi , Polling Systems with Synchronization Constraints , Annals of Operations Research , Vol. 35, special issue on Stochastic Modeling of Telecommunication Systems, Eds. P. Nain and K. W. Ross, pp. 231-267, 1992.
[2] E. Altman, A. Khamisy and U. Yechiali , On Elevator Polling with Globally Gated Regime , Queuing Systems , Vol. 11, (special issue on "Polling Models", Eds. H. Takagi and O. Boxma), pp. 85-90, 1992.
[3] E. Altman, P. Konstantopoulos, Z. Liu , Stability, Monotonicity and Invariant Quantities in General Polling Systems , Queuing Systems , Vol. 11, (special issue on ``Polling Models", Eds. H. Takagi and O. Boxma), pp. 35-57, 1992.
[4] E. Altman and U. Yechiali , Cyclic Bernoulli Polling pdf, ps, ZOR - Methods and Models in Operations Research , Vol. 38, Issue 1, pp. 55-76, 1993.
[5] E. Altman, H. Blanc, A. Khamisy and U. Yechiali , Polling Systems with walking and switch-in times , Stochastic models , Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 741-763, 1994.
[6] E. Altman and U. Yechiali , Closed polling systems , Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences , Vol. 18, pp. 327-343, 1994.
[7] E. Altman and H. Levy , Queueing in space , Advances of Applied Probability , Vol. 26, pp. 1095-1116, 1994.
[8] E. Altman and F. Spieksma , Polling systems: moment stability of station times and central limit theorems , Stochastic Models , Vol 12, pp. 307-328, 1996.
[9] E. Altman and S. Foss , Polling on a graph with general arrival and service time distribution , Operations Research Letters , Vol 20, pp. 187-194, 1997.
[10] E. Altman, S. Foss, E. Riehl, S. Stidham , Performance Bounds and Pathwise Stability for Generalized Vacation and Polling Systems, [ps], [pdf], Operations Research , 1997.
[11] E. Altman, Stochastic recursive equations with applications to queues with dependent vacations , Annals of Operations Research, 2002.
[12] Veervaruna Kavitha and Eitan Altman, Queueing in Space: design of Message Ferry Routes in static adhoc networks , 21st International Teletraffic Congress (ITC 21) September 15-17, 2009, Paris, France
[13] Veeraruna Kavitha and Eitan Altman, "Analysis and Design of Message Ferry Routes in Sensor Networks using Polling Models" WiOpt 2010, May 31-Jun 04, Avignon, France
[14] Veeraruna Kavitha and Eitan Altman, "Opportunistic Scheduling of a Message Ferry in Sensor Networks" MobiOpp 2010, February, Pisa, Italy.
[15] Veeraruna Kavitha and Eitan Altman, "Continuous Polling models and Application to Ferry Assisted WLAN" Annals of Operations Research (Special Issue on Polling Systems), 2011.
[16] E. Altman and D. Fiems, "Expected waiting time in symmetric polling systems with correlated vacations" postscript, pdf , Queueing Systems, , Vol 56, No. 3-4, pp. 255-265, 2007.

For related papers, see also:
Local area networks

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