PAST SEMINARS: STOCHASTIC NETWORKS SEMINAR (1999-00)

WINTER 2000

  • Thursday, February 24, 2000, 12.30 p.m., AP&M 6218
    Christian Gromoll (UCSD graduate student)
    Convergence to a fluid limit for a processor sharing queue

    SPRING 2000

  • Thursday, April 13, 2000, 2.45 p.m., AP&M 7218
    Aubin Whitley (UCSD graduate student)
    Control of communication networks: diffusion approximations for a single node accessed by congestion-controlled sources, following A. Das and R. Srikant.
    For a copy of the paper related to this talk, click here and download the paper listed under the QoS heading that is by Das and Srikant. You may also find the survey paper by R. Srikant on Control of Communication Networks of interest.

  • Thursday, May 4, 2000, 2.45 p.m., AP&M 7218
    Jason Lee (UCSD graduate student)
    Rate control for communication networks: shadow prices, proportional fairness and stability (following Kelly, Maulloo and Tan). For a copy of the paper on which this talk is based, click here.

  • Thursday, May 11, 2000, 2.45 p.m., AP&M 7218
    Amber Puha (California State University, San Marcos)
    Diffusion approximations for networks of queues with multiple customer types (following W. P. Peterson, Math. Oper. Res. 9 (1991), 90-118).

  • Thursday, June 1, 2000, 2.45 p.m., AP&M 7218
    Jason Lee (UCSD Graduate Student)
    On Braess' paradox

  • Thursday, June 8, 2000, 2.45 p.m., AP&M 7218
    Aubin Whitley (UCSD Graduate Student)
    On a heavy traffic limit theorem for a single server queue with heavy tailed service requirement (following Resnick and Samorodnitsky)
    For a copy of the paper on which this talk is based, click here -- paper 1221.