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Analytical and Computational Methods for Assessing the Performance of Telecommunications Networks (1997-1999)

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Journal articles and papers in refereed conference proceedings

Bebbington, M., Pollett, P.K. and Ziedins, I. (1997) Improved fixed point methods for loss networks with linear structure. In (Ed. W.J. Lavery) Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Telecommunications, Vol. 3, Office of Continuing Education, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia, pp. 1411-1416.

Pollett, P.K. (1997) Optimal allocation of effort in packet switching networks with generally distributed transmission times. In (Eds J. Hullett and D. Sampson) Proceedings of the 3rd Asia-Pacific Conference on Cummunications, Vol. 3 (ISBN 0-909394-44-X), IREE Society of Australia, Sydney, Australia, pp. 1489-1493.

Bebbington, M., Pollett, P.K. and Ziedins, I. (1998) Two-link approximation schemes for linear loss networks without controls. Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society 35, 539-557.

Thompson. M.R. (1998) On recent advances in loss network performance analysis. In (Eds E. Kozan and R. Beard) New Research in OR, Proceedings of the 2nd ASOR Queensland Conference, Australian Society for Operations Research, Queensland Branch, Queensland, Australia, pp. 166-177.

Pollett, P.K. (2000) Modelling congestion in closed queueing networks. International Transactions in Operational Research 7, 319-330.

Pollett, P.K. (2000) Resource allocation in general queueing networks. In (Ed. A. Ohuchi) Putting OR/MS Theory into Real Life: Proceedings of the 2nd Joint International Workshop of the Operations Research Society of Japan the Australian Society for Operations Research, Operations Research Society of Japan, Sapporo, Japan, pp. 221-228.

Thompson, M.R. (2000) Analysis of a ring-based loss network. International Transactions in Operational Research 7, 419-429.

Hart, A.G. (2001) On serial and parallel implementations of the Erlang fixed point iteration scheme. International Transactions in Operational Research 8, 317-335.

Bebbington, M., Pollett, P.K. and Ziedins, I. (2002) Two-link approximation schemes for loss networks with linear structure and trunk reservation. Telecommunication Systems 19, 187-207.

Hart, A.G. and Martinez, S. (2002) Sequential iteration of the Erlang fixed-point equations. Information Processing Letters 81, 319-325.

Technical reports

Bebbington, M., Pollett, P.K. and Ziedins, I. (1998) Product form approximations for highly linear loss networks with trunk reservation. Report 98-02, Centre for Applied Dynamical Systems, Mathematical Analysis and Probability, The University of Queensland.

Papers in edited conference proceedings

Bebbington, M., Pollett, P.K. and Ziedins, I. (1999) Product form approximations for highly linear loss networks with trunk reservation. In (Eds Richard J. Wilson, Shunji Osaki and M.J. Faddy) Proceedings of the 1st Western Pacific and 3rd Australia-Japan Workshop on Stochastic Models in Engineering Technology and Management, Centre for Statistics, University of Queensland, pp. 45-54.

Hart, A.G. (1999) On serial and parallel implementations of the Erlang fixed point iteration scheme. In (Ed. E. Kozan) Proceedings of the 15th National Conference of the Australian Society for Operations Research, Vol. 1 (ISBN 0-9596291-2-2), Queensland University of Technology, 526-541.

Pollett, P.K. (1999) Bottlenecks in Markovian queueing networks. In (Ed. E. Kozan) Proceedings of the 15th National Conference of the Australian Society for Operations Research, Vol. 2 (ISBN 0-9596291-3-0), Queensland University of Technology, 1047-1056.

Pollett, P.K. and Thompson, M.R. (1999) The analysis of continuous-time Markovian models using expected rates. In (Eds Richard J. Wilson, Shunji Osaki and M.J. Faddy) Proceedings of the 1st Western Pacific and 3rd Australia-Japan Workshop on Stochastic Models in Engineering Technology and Management, Centre for Statistics, University of Queensland, pp. 456-465.

Thompson, M.R. (1999) Analysis of a ring-based loss network. In (Ed. E. Kozan) Proceedings of the 15th National Conference of the Australian Society for Operations Research, Vol. 2 (ISBN 0-9596291-3-0), Queensland University of Technology, 1280-1289.

Thompson, M.R. and Pollett, P.K. (2001) A reduced load approximation accounting for link interactions in a loss network. In Operations Research in the Third Millenium, Proceedings of the 16th National Conference of the Australian Society for Operations Research, The University of Adelaide.

Pollett, P.K. (2001) Resource allocation in general queueing networks with applications to data networks. In Operations Research in the Third Millenium, Proceedings of the 16th National Conference of the Australian Society for Operations Research (Optimization Day), The University of Adelaide.

Invited conference papers

Pollett, P.K., Optimal allocation of effort in general queueing networks. 4th Conference of the Association of Asia-Pacific Operational Research Societies (APORS'97), Melbourne, Australia, 30 November-4 December 1997.

Pollett, P.K., Fixed point methods for loss networks. International Conference on Probability Theory and its Applications, Taejon, Korea, 24-26 February 1998.

Contributed conference papers

Bebbington, M., Pollett, P.K. and Ziedins, I., Two-link approximation schemes for loss networks with linear structure under trunk reservation. 14th Biennial Conference of Statistical Society of Australia, Conrad Jupiters, Gold Coast, Australia, 6-10 July 1998.

Pollett, P.K., Poisson approximations for traffic processes. The 44th Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 2-5 July 2000.


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