We propose the introduction of a Polling Layer that allows the efficient instrumentation of the management information models for the use of monitoring-intensive management applications. The polling layer allows to optimize the number of polling packets sent to the SNMP agents to collect management data. We describe the architecture of the polling layer that allows the management applications t...

For a broad class of polling models the evolution of the system at specific embedded polling instants is known to constitute multitype branching process (MTBP) with immigration. In this paper it is shown that for this class of polling models the vector X that describes the state of the system at these polling instants satisfies the following heavy-traffic behavior, under mild assumptions: (1− ρ...

We propose the introduction of a Polling Layer that allows the efficient instrumentation of the management information models for the use of monitoring-intensive management applications. The polling layer allows to optimize the number of polling packets sent to the SNMP agents to collect management data. We describe the architecture of the polling layer that allows the management applications t...

The basic polling system is a system of multiple queues, attended to by a single server in a cyclic order. Polling systems arise naturally in the modelling of many communication, computer and production networks where several users compete for access to a common resource. Such applications also give rise to several variants of the basic polling system, like periodic polling; here the server vis...

The direct link communication between STAtions (STAs) is one of the techniques to improve the MAC performance of IEEE 802.11 infrastructure networks. For the efficient direct link communication, in the literature, the simultaneous polling method was proposed to allow the multiple direct data communication to be performed simultaneously. However, the efficiency of the simultaneous polling method...

A clientlserver model which employs a polling policy as its access strategy is considered. We propose a learning-automata-based approach for polling in order to improve the throughput-delay performance of the system. Each client has an associated queue and the server performs selective polling such that the next client to be served is identified by a learning automaton. The leaning automaton up...

This special volume of the Annals of Operations Research contains frontier research papers on polling systems. A typical polling system consists of a number of queues, attended by a single server who visits the queues in some order to render service to the customers waiting at the queues. Polling systems naturally arise in a large number of application areas such as maintenance, manufacturing, ...