Order fulfillment is the most expensive and critical operation for companies engaged in e-commerce. E-commerce distribution centers must rapidly organize the picking and sorting processes during and after the transaction has taken place, with the ongoing need to create greater responsiveness to customers. Sorting brings a relatively large setup time, which cannot be well admitted by existing po...

Network management and network monitoring technologies frequently rely on periodic SNMP polling of target devices to obtain statistical information for later reduction and analysis. Periodic polling has been applied to virtually every type of network device capable of supporting an SNMP agent, including probes, routers, switches, and servers. This paper examines the extension of periodic pollin...

The intrinsic limitations of traditional centralised Network Management (NM), such as information bottlenecks and lack of flexibility, have encouraged a trend towards distributed management intelligence. Although several distributed NM architectures, exploiting the advantages of Mobile Agents (MA) have been recently proposed, when considering Network Performance Management (NPM) they fail to ad...

Polling sur un graphe avec des temps d'inter-arriv ees et de services avec distributions g en erales Abstract Nous consid erons un syst eme de polling sur un graphe avec des temps d'inter-arriv ees, de services et de d eplacements du serveur qui forment des suites i.i.d. Nous pr esentons des conditions suusantes et n ecessaires de stabilit e, en utilisant une analyse de la d erive de la charge ...

In the recent years, many polling schemes for Bluetooth networks have been proposed and evaluated. To the authors knowledge, however, analysis has been carried out mainly through computer simulations and, up to now, no mathematical treatment of this topic has been presented. In this paper, we propose an analytical framework for performance evaluation of polling algorithms in Bluetooth piconets....

This paper presents a method to monitor information of a large-sized multicast group that can follow the group’s dynamics in realtime while avoiding feedback implosion by using probabilistic polling. In particular, this paper improves the probabilistic-polling-based approach by deriving a reference mean value as the reference control value for the number of expected feedback from the properties...