This work aims to analyse different design proposals for a dynamic Weighted Fair Queuing (WFQ) scheduler to provide Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees in general at IP level and specifically for the applications of the PHOENIX project. Several possible design options and configuration parameters have been investigated and studied for a dynamic scheduling discipline able to support QoS in a rel...

In this paper, we develop a statistical approach to explore empirically the dependence between risks in the extremes. We apply it to study the dependence between mortality and market risks. With data for 6 developed countries, extending over 80 years, we pick the worst 10 years of mortality and compare their averages to the whole sample averages. We observe a reduction of the performance of som...

In this paper, we develop a noncooperative game to model a non-life insurance market. Our first goal will be to analyze the effects of competition between insurers through different indicators: the solvency level, the market share, the underwriting results. Secondly, we will seek to further understand the genesis of insurance market cycles. Insurance market cycles have troubled actuaries and ac...

There i s an increasing demand for Internet core nodes to have (I) quality-of-service (QoS) guarantees and (2) higher switching capacity. The combined input and output queued (CiOQ) switching has been shown to be a promising solution to meet such demand. However, many of the proposed scheduling algorithms fo r a CIOQ switch cannot be practically implemented due to problems from scalability and ...

The optimal provision of healthcare and public health services requires the synthesis of evidence from multiple disciplines. It is necessary to understand the genetic, environmental, behavioural and social determinants of disease and health-related states; to balance the effectiveness of interventions with their costs; to ensure the maximum safety and acceptability of interventions; and to prov...

 Background: A fair and just trial, as one of the most fundamental moral demands in the legal system, can have positive consequences in the legal system. The effectiveness of the registration system in society is increasing and it is necessary to conduct appropriate surveys to meet their expectations, especially in terms of paying attention to the substantive rules of fair trial. The rules and ...

Rapid transformation in marketing information technologies has enabled corporations to build ample consumer databases and analyze those using sophisticated data-mining techniques to obtain extensive knowledge about those consumers’ personal life styles and private matters. Considering that the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has relied on fair information principles to guide privac...

It is expected that the proportional fair (PF) scheduler will be used widely in cdma2000 1xEV-DO systems because it maximizes the sum of each user’s utility, which is given by the logarithm of its average throughput. In this paper, we address an influence of the PF scheduler on the packet transmission delay in base station (BS) and propose an analytic model.

Packet scheduling is key to quality of service (QoS) capabilities of broadband wired and wireless networks. In a heterogeneous traffic environment, a comprehensive QoS packet scheduler must strike a balance between flow fairness and access delay. Many advanced packet scheduling solutions have targeted fair bandwidth allocation while protecting delay-constrained traffic by adding priority queue(...