Several research efforts have recently attempted to characterize the effects of heavy-tailed traffic on router performance, while the effects of light-tailed traffic have for long been understood. Since general web traffic originates from heterogeneous sources, the study of traffic mixing is of importance as it can reveal the degree to which heavy-tailed traffic can be handled by networking inf...

We study a many-server queueing model with server vacations, where the population size dynamics of servers and customers are coupled: may leave for vacation only when no await, capacity available to is directly affected by number on vacation. focus scaling regimes in which queue fluctuate at matching time scales so that their limiting coupled. Specifically, we argue interesting coupled occur (a...