Generalised Entropy Maximisation and Queues with Bursty and/or Heavy Tails

• Published in: Network Performance Engineering pp. 357 - 392
• Main Authors: Kouvatsos, Demetres D., Assi, Salam A.
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2011
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: burstiness; Extensive maximum entropy (EME) formalism; fractional Brownian motion (fBm); generalised (modified) geometric (GGeo) distribution; generalised exponential (GE) distribution; generalised Zipf-Mandelbrot (G-Z-M) distribution; heterogeneous networks; long-range dependence (LRD); non-extensive maximum entropy formalism (NME); performance evaluation; queueing systems; self-similarity; short-range dependence (SRD); traffic characterisation

An exposition of the ‘extensive’ (EME) and ‘non-extensive’ (NME) maximum entropy formalisms is undertaken in conjunction with their applicability into the analysis of queues with bursty and/or heavy tails that are often observed in performance evaluation studies of heterogeneous networks and Interne...