Title :
Packets seen by an arriving packet versus packets waited for in multiuser polling systems
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
fDate :
6/1/2003 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
An argument is provided to establish the equality in ergodic polling systems between the average number of packets seen by an arriving packet and the average number of packets an arriving packet must wait for before its service.
Keywords :
multi-access systems; multiuser channels; packet switching; queueing theory; arriving packet; ergodic polling systems; multiaccess channels; multiuser polling systems; packet scheduling; packet waiting; queueing analysis; Communication switching; Delay; Local area networks; Mathematical analysis; Packet switching; Queueing analysis; Satellites; Statistical analysis; Statistics; Traffic control;
Journal_Title :
Communications, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TCOMM.2003.813265
