In wavelength-routed WDM networks, blocking probability of lightpath establishments is generally high due to coarse granularity and wavelength continuity constraint. Therefore, blocking of lightpath establishments is one of crucial issues which must be resolved. Multifiber environments reduce blocking probability of lightpath establishments because each link consists of multiple fibers and mult...

Two important Quality-of-Service (QoS) measures for current cellular networks are the fractions of new and handoff “calls” that are blocked due to unavailability of “channels” (radio and/or computing resources). Based on these QoS measures, we derive optimal admission control policies for three problems: minimizing a linear objective function of the new and handoff call blocking probabilities (...

48 ellular digital packet data (CDPD) [1–3] networks provide wireless data communications services to mobile users by sharing the radio equipment and unused RF channels with Advanced Mobile Phone System (AMPS) networks [6]. Basically, CDPD transmits packet data over idle AMPS channels, and autonomously switches to another channel when the current channel is about to be assigned for voice usage....

Currently, the Immediate reservation (IR) and advance reservation (AR) are the two main reservation mechanisms implemented on large-scale scientific optical networks. We can also provide hybrid IR/AR scenarios. Nonetheless, such scenarios can increase the blocking of IR if no quality-of-service (QoS) policies are considered. A solution could be to quantify such blocking performance is that to i...

When a photon is detected by a Geiger-mode avalanche photo-diode (GMAPD), the detector is rendered inactive, or blocked, for a certain period of time. In this paper we derive the blocking probability for a GMAPD whose input is either an unmodulated, Bernoulli modulated or pulse-position-modulated (PPM) Poisson process. We demonstrate how the PPM and Bernoulli cases differ, illustrating that the...

In this paper, we consider the application of the the rmodynamic concepts to the study of connect ing networks such as those found in telephone systems as illustrated in Fig. 1. Basically, the problem is to obtain all possible connections between N inputs and N outputs given by the permutat ion group by means of a physical structure. This could, for example, be an N • N matrix. For telephone ap...

This paper proposes an approximation for the blocking probability in a many-server loss model with a non-Poisson time-varying arrival process and flexible staffing (number of servers) and shows that it can be used to set staffing levels to stabilize the time-varying blocking probability at a target level. Because the blocking probabilities necessarily change dramatically after each staffing cha...

A Quality of service (QoS)-aware signal to interference and noise ratio (SINR)-based blocking probability model is simulated in this paper to evaluate the performance of networks with third generation (3G) interface. To arrive at a suitable model, we set a relatively low SINR threshold value ( th SINR ), which results in the admission of more users into the system. But this in turn yields an in...

From the main paper: This paper proposes an approximation for the blocking probability in a many-server loss model with a non-Poisson time-varying arrival process and flexible staffing (number of servers) and shows that it can be used to set staffing levels to stabilize the timevarying blocking probability at a target level. Because the blocking probabilities necessarily change dramatically aft...

Relay deployment in Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) based cellular networks helps in coverage extension and/or capacity improvement. To quantify capacity improvement, blocking probability of voice traffic is typically calculated using Erlang B formula. This calculation is based on the assumption that all users require same amount of resources to satisfy their rate requirem...