Accession Number:

ADA191966

Title:

Stochastic Flows in Networks.

Descriptive Note:

Final technical rept. 30 Sep 84-29 Sep 87,

Corporate Author:

GEORGIA INST OF TECH ATLANTA SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

Personal Author(s):

• Serfozo, Richard F.

Report Date:

1987-12-01

Pagination or Media Count:

11.0

Abstract:

The author studied conditions in which a point process of certain jump timers of a Markov process is a Poisson process a multi-administration telecommunications network and a system in which customers arrive singly or in batches of a group of service stations. Keywords Stochastic processes Optimal control Queueing theory.

Descriptors:

• *MARKOV PROCESSES
• *POISSON EQUATION
• *QUEUEING THEORY
• *COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS
• CONTROL
• FLOW
• OPTIMIZATION
• STOCHASTIC PROCESSES
• TIMING DEVICES
• TELECOMMUNICATIONS
• STOCHASTIC CONTROL

Subject Categories:

• Statistics and Probability
• Non-Radio Communications

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE