priority queues have a great importance in the study of computer communication networks in which different types of traffic require different quality of service standards. the discrete-time non-preemptive priority queuing model with priority jumps is proposed in this paper. on the basis of probability generating functions mean system contents and mean queuing delay characteristics are obtained....

Unlike the existing views that was introduced the existence of delay caused by the transmission of wide area measurement system data (WAMS) into the controllers input of the power oscilation damping (POD) by communication networks as a reason for poor performance of the POD controllers. This paper shows that the presence of time delay in the feedback loop may improve the performance of a POD co...

background & aim: nowadays, home health care services play significant roles in modern societies. such services allow the elderly and needy people to pass their treatment process at their own houses in a friendly environment. in this paper, weekly routing and scheduling problem of home health care personnel was investigated. methods & materials: insufficient number of expert personnel or overla...

We propose a new distributed scheduling scheme for guaranteeing quality of service(QoS) in WSNs. We first introduce the two multi-hop delay factors which can be caused by conventional TDMA scheduling;queueing delay and the delay by random link schedule. Next, this paper drives average end-toend delay of the proposed scheduling scheme that sequentially schedules the slots on the path and the con...

The locomotive assignment and the freight train scheduling are important problems in railway transportation. Freight cars are coupled to form a freight rake. The freight rake becomes a train when a locomotive is coupled to it. The locomotive assignment problem assigns locomotives to a set of freight rakes in a way that, with minimum locomotive deadheading time, rake coupling delay and locomotiv...

The support of delay-sensitive applications like VoIP, video conferencing, video streaming, etc. on scheduled mesh networks requires careful configuration of routing and scheduling. We formulate a delay-optimal joint routing and scheduling optimization problem that minimizes the maximum average delay perceived by any flow under the physical interference model. Due to the non-convex nature of th...