We study the impact of service time distributions on the distribution ofthe maximum queue length during a busy period for the Mx/G/1 queue. The maximum queue length is an important random variable to understand when designing the buffer size for finite-buffer (M/G/1/n) systems. We show the somewhat surprising result that, for three variations of the preemptive last-come-first-served discipline,...

Fluid queue driven by a birth and death process (BDP) with only one negative effective input rate has been considered in the literature. As an alternative, here we consider a fluid queue in which the input is characterized by a BDP with alternating positive and negative flow rates on a finite state space. Also, the BDP has two alternating arrival rates and two alternating service rates. Explici...

We study the impact of service-time distributions on the distribution of the maximum queue length during a busy period for the M/G/1 queue. The maximum queue length is an important random variable to understand when designing the buffer size for finite buffer (M/G/1/n) systems. We show the somewhat surprising result that for three variations of the preemptive LCFS discipline, the maximum queue ...

This paper examines a discrete material manufacturing system consisting of three machines that are subject to breakdown and one buffer of finite capacity. It is assumed that the buffer has two immediate preceding machines performing the same operations and one immediate succeeding machine receiving material from the buffer. When the buffer reaches its own capacity, one of the two preceding mach...

The numerical simulation of two-phase flow in a porous medium may lead, when using coupled finite volume schemes on structured grids, to the apparition of the so-called Grid Orientation Effect (GOE). We propose in this paper a procedure to eliminate this phenomenon, based on the use of new fluxes with a new stencil in the discrete version of the convection equation, without changing the discret...

This paper presents an architecture for synchronization of threads or tasks when accessing regions of virtual memory. Access control is defined on a memory region through a view that defines the size of access units and also the protocol in terms of a Finite State Machine (FSM). Variable-sized access units are obtained without altering the underlying fixed sized paging implementation. Trace-dri...

In this aper, we present a procedure to analyze the delay distribution of data traffic in CDMA systems supporting voice and delay-tolerant data services with a finite buffer. The queueing method using a buffer for a delay-tolerant traffic can be used to improve the system utilization or the availability of system resources. Under the first-come and first-serve (FCFS) service discipline, we pres...

The immersion of a single ion confined by a radiofrequency (RF) trap in an ultracold atomic gas extends the concept of buffer gas cooling to a new temperature regime. The steady-state energy distribution of the ion is determined by its kinetics in the RF field rather than the temperature of the buffer gas. Moreover, the finite size of the ultracold gas facilitates the observation of backaction ...

We consider a set of N fluid On–Off flows that share a common server of capacity c and a finite buffer B. The server capacity is allocated using the generalized processor sharing scheduling discipline. Each flow has a minimum service rate guarantee that exceeds its long-term average demand qi. The buffer sharing is unrestricted as long as there is available space. If the buffer is full, the nec...