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M/G/1/MLPS compared to M/G/1/PS

Multilevel Processor Sharing scheduling disciplines have recently been resurrected in papers that focus on the differentiation between short and long TCP flows in the Internet. We prove that, for M/G/1 queues, such disciplines are better than the Processor Sharing discipline with respect to the mean delay whenever the hazard rate of the service time distribution is decreasing.

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M/M/1-PS queue and size-aware task assignment

We consider a distributed server system in which heterogeneous servers operate under the processor sharing (PS) discipline. Exponentially distributed jobs arrive to a dispatcher, which assigns each task to one of the servers. In the so-called size-aware system, the dispatcher is assumed to know the remaining service requirements of some or all of the existing jobs in each server. The aim is to ...

M-Payment - How Disruptive Technologies Could Change The Payment Ecosystem

Within developed economies, the field of m-payment appears to be driven by (disruptive) technological innovations. M-payments, similar to e-payments, have been regulated in such a way that banks and other established financial institutions have been able to maintain an unchallenged position in the payment ecosystem. However, disruptive technologies like Near Field Communication, but more import...

M-Payment Solutions and M-Commerce Fraud Management

Mobile security and payment are central to m-commerce. The shift from physical to virtual payments has brought enormous benefits to consumers and merchants. For consumers it means ease of use. For mobile operators, mobile payment presents a unique opportunity to consolidate their central role in the m-commerce value chain. Financial organizations view mobile payment and mobile banking as a way ...