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Call for papers on Queueing Models for Fair Resource Sharing Special Issue of Queueing Systems
Background Over the past several
years, the Processor-Sharing (PS) paradigm has
attracted renewed attention as a convenient tool for evaluating the
flow-level performance of bandwidth-sharing mechanisms such as TCP.
Besides providing crucial insights, the ordinary PS model has also
catalyzed advances in the analysis of more complex scenarios.
For example, the actual bandwidth shares may significantly vary
among competing flows, either due to the impact of heterogeneous
feedback delays or loss rates, or due to explicit differentiation
based on Quality-of-Service considerations or tariff structures.
Extensions of the egalitarian PS model, such as the Discriminatory
Processor-Sharing discipline, have been proposed for modeling
the flow-level performance in such asymmetric scenarios.
In addition, TCP flows typically traverse several links, causing
intricate forms of interaction.
The latter network scenarios give rise to bandwidth-sharing models
which differ from traditional queueing networks because of the
simultaneous possession of multiple shared resources.
The integration of elastic and streaming traffic and the
idiosyncrasies of wireless data communications have recently
prompted yet further extensions of the standard PS model. Scope Proper dimensioning and
Quality-of-Service provisioning in integrated
networks requires a thorough understanding of basic models for fair
resource sharing as well as extensions to asymmetric disciplines,
network scenarios, and integration of heterogeneous traffic categories.
A broad range of valuable results have been obtained, such as
insensitivity properties, stability conditions and various forms of
asymptotics.
Yet, the performance evaluation of fair and efficient resource
sharing strategies continues to pose a wide spectrum of challenging
research issues.
Submissions Queueing
Systems solicits
original research contributions
for possible publication in a special issue on Queueing
Models for Fair Resource Sharing.
Manuscripts may be submitted as Postscript files via email to the guest
editors Sem Borst and Sindo Núñez-Queija
({sem,sindo}@cwi.nl).
The usual manuscript preparation and copyright transfer guidelines
for Queueing Systems apply (these may be found in the
back
of the journal or via http://www.kluweronline.com). As is customary for
such special issues, authors of submitted papers
will play a key role in the review process.
Important dates Acceptance notification: October 15, 2005 Final version due: December 1, 2005 Publication special issue: April 2006 PDF version of this Call For Papers Sem Borst and Rudesindo Núñez-Queija |