this paper extends certain results of iglehart and whitt on multiple channel queues to the case where the inter-arrival times and service times are not necessarily identically distributed. it is shown that the weak convergence results in this case are exactly the same as those obtained by iglehart and whitt

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the central nervous system characterized by widespread inflammation, focal demyelination and a variable degree of axonal and neuronal loss. Ionic conductances regulate T cell activation as well as neuronal function and thus have been found to play a crucial role in MS pathogenesis. Since present therapeutical approaches are only parti...

Ultra-WideBand (UWB) has been recently presented as a promising radio technology due to the large bandwidth available. This feature enables point to point high data rates at short range as well as high temporal resolution with long channel impulse reponses (CIR). In this paper, we present an original multiple access scheme called Channel Division Multiple Access (ChDMA), where we use the CIR as...

The medium-access control (MAC) protocols for wireless networks proposed or implemented to date based on collision-avoidance handshakes between sender and receiver either require carrier sensing or the assignment of unique codes to nodes to ensure that intended receivers hear data packets without interference from hidden sources. We present and analyze a protocol that we call channel-hopping mu...