This paper studies heavy traffic behavior of a G/G/1 last-in-first-out (LIFO) preemptive resume queue, by extending the techniques developed in Limic (1999). The queue length process exhibits a perhaps unexpected heavy traffic behavior. The diffusion limit depends on the type of arrivals (and services) in a fairly intricate way, related to the Wiener-Hopf factorization for random walks.

This paper studies the performance of interrupt-driven kernels when subjected to heavy network traffic such as that of Gigabit Ethernet. Under heavy network traffic, the kernel performance will be negatively affected due to interrupt overhead caused by the incoming traffic. In particular, excessive latency and significant degradation in system throughput can be experienced. In this paper, we pr...

Heavy traffic is a source of air pollution and a safety concern with important public health implications. We investigated whether green space lowers child asthma risk by buffering the effects of heavy traffic and a lack of neighborhood safety. Multilevel models were used to analyze affirmative asthma cases in nationally representative cross-sectional data from 4447 children aged 6-7 years old ...

A commonly accepted traffic model for a large population of Internet users consists of a multiplex of Poisson-arriving heavy-tailed streams with the same constant rate (M/G/ ). We show that even though such regular model provides an accurate description of long-range dependence, the marginal distribution variance is underestimated, resulting in erroneous calculation of overflow probability in n...

OBJECTIVE To determine the metal contents of date palm (Pheonix dactylifera) samples in dry season from Denizli-Turkey for investigation of heavy metal-polluted traffic. METHOD The levels of iron, copper, zinc, lead, cadmium, nickel, chromium, and manganese ions in the leaves of thirty five date palm (Pheonix dactylifera) samples collected from various levels of traffic in the streets of Deni...

With the ever-increasing link speeds and traffic volumes of the Internet, monitoring and analyzing network traffic usage becomes a challenging but essential service for network administrators of large ISPs or institutions. There are two popular primitives for efficient analysis over massive data streams: heavy hitter detection and heavy change detection. Although numerous approaches have been p...

In this paper we derive decomposition results for the number of customers in polling systems under arbitrary (dynamic) polling order and service policies. Furthermore, we obtain sharper decomposition results for both the number of customers in the system and the waiting times under static polling policies. Our analysis, which is based on distributional laws, relaxes the Poisson assumption that ...

Fiber-Wireless (FiWi) networks typically combine an optical access network with a wireless access network so as to build on the respective strengths of the optical and wireless network technologies. Prior analytical throughput-delay studies of FiWi networks have typically considered heavy-loaded traffic models, i.e., constantly backlogged source nodes. In contrast, in this paper we present a mo...

Despite its small size, a moss bag can reveal the different temporal and spatial deposition patterns of pollutants at a particular site; therefore, researchers can use moss bags to determine pollution sources and to put forward strategies for pollution control. Although the use of moss bags to monitor atmospheric pollution has been widely reported in Europe, there are few such empirical studies...

Cypress tree with blue green foliage and scaly reddish brown bark is planted throughout world as an ornamental plant. One of the newest ways for determining amount and kind of environmental pollutants is natural biomonitoring. The samples were obtained from three sites (heavy traffic, moderate traffic and control) in Isfahan during August-September and November-December 2013 and February-March ...