Providing performance guarantees is one of the most important issues for future
telecommunication networks. This book describes theoretical developments in performance …

This paper presents a personal view of work to date on e ective bandwidths, emphasising
the unifying role of the concept: as a summary of the statistical characteristics of sources …

The theory of large deviations provides a simple unified basis for statistical mechanics,
information theory and queueing theory. The objective of this paper is to use large deviation …

In this paper, we consider a queue with a time varying capacity and identify the effective
bandwidth of the stationary departure process from such a queue. Two important …

We analyse the queue QL at a multiplexer with L inputs. We obtain a large deviation result,
namely that under very general conditions\lim L → ∞ L^-1\log P\left Q^ L> Lb\right=-I (b) …

The vision of researchers to create smart environments through the deployment of
thousands of sensors, each with a short range wireless communications channel and …

This paper presents a method for single target tracking of arbitrary objects in challenging
video sequences. Targets are modeled at three different levels of granularity (pixel level …

Modern telecommunications networks are being designed to accomodate a heterogenous
mix of tra c classes ranging from traditional telephone calls to video and data services. Thus …

We analyze the performance of a multilevel splitting method for rare event simulation related
to one recently proposed in the telecommunications literature. This method splits promising …

This paper is an introduction to some large deviations techniques that have been used for
analyzing models of communication networks. Starting from the beginning (sequences of iid …