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Program in Probability and Its Applications ANALYSIS AND SIMULATION OF COMMUNICATION NETWORKS WORKSHOP
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Monday, November 9, 1998
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| 9:00-9:30 | Workshop Registration |
| 9:30-10:30 | PLENARY TALK: F. Kelly (Cambridge University) Pricing and Rate Control in Communication Networks |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break |
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Stability and Load Balancing of A Network
of Call Centres
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| 11:00-11:30 | R. Srinivasan (University of Saskatchewan) An Introduction To Call Centres |
| 11:30-12:30 | D. Stanford (University of Western Ontario) Bilingual Server Call Centres |
| 12:30-2:00 | Lunch |
| 2:00-3:00 | S. Turner (Cambridge University) Large Deviations for Join The Shortest Queue |
| 3:00-3:30 | Afternoon Tea |
| 3:30-4:30 | D. McDonald (University of Ottawa) Resource Pooling for Distributed Call Centres |
| 4:30-5:30 | S. Foss (Institute of Mathematics, Novosibirsk) On Recurrence, Positive Recurrence, and Stability of Markovian Stochastic Networks |
| 5:30-6:30 | Reception |
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Tuesday, November 10, 1998
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| 9:45-10:45 | PLENARY TALK: W. Whitt (AT&T Labs Research) Predicting Queueing Delays And Response Times |
| 10:45-11:15 | Coffee Break |
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Stability and Load Balancing of A Network
of Call Centres
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| 11:15-12:15 | R. J. Williams (University of California, San Diego)
Dynamic Scheduling of a System with Parallel Servers |
| 12:15-1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30-2:30 | W. Massey (Bell Labs of Lucent Technologies) Strong Approximations for Markovian Service Networks |
| 2:30-3:30 | M. Reiman (Bell Labs of Lucent Technologies) The Critically Loaded Multiclass GI/PH/N Queue |
| 3:30-4:00 | Afternoon Tea |
| 4:00-5:00 | Y.-C. Teh (Oxford University) Dynamic Scheduling for Queueing Networks Derived from Discrete Review Policies |
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Wednesday, November 11, 1998
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| 9:00-10:00 | PLENARY TALK: T. Kurtz (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Martingale Problems for Filtering and Control |
| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee Break |
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Large Deviations For Queueing Networks
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| 10:30-11:30 | C. Graham (Centre de Mathematiques Appliquees - UMR,
CNRS) Equilibrium Large Deviations For a Large Star-Shaped Loss Network |
| 11:30-12:30 | R. Atar (York University/The Fields Institute) Identifying the Rate Function For A Class of Multidimensional Queueing Networks |
| 12:30- | Lunch (Afternoon is Free Time) |
| 2:30-3:00 | Afternoon Tea |
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Thursday, November 12, 1998
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| 9:45-10:45 | PLENARY TALK: B. Prabhakar (Stanford University) Fixed Point Theorems for Queues |
| 10:45-11:15 | Coffee Break |
| Traffic and Performance | |
| 11:15-12:15 | F. Kelly (Cambridge University) Effective Bandwidths, Pricing and Admission Control |
| 12:15-1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30-2:30 | S. Grishechkin (Carleton University) On "Catastrophic" Behavior of Queueing Networks |
| 2:30-3:30 | A. Karasaridis (University of Toronto) Broadband Network Traffic Modeling and Management with Alpha-Stable Self-Similar Processes |
| 3:30-4:00 | Afternoon Tea |
| Friday, November 13, 1998 | |
| 9:45-10:45 | PLENARY TALK: P. Glynn (Stanford University) Data and Modeling in the Analysis of Queues |
| 10:45-11:15 | Coffee Break |
| Traffic and Performance | |
| 11:15-12:15 | D. J. Daley (Australian National University) Long Range Dependence and Point Processes |
| 12:15-1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30-2:30 | G. Kesidis (University of Waterloo) Worst-Case Bounds for a Queue Shared by Deterministically Shaped Traffic |
| 2:30-3:30 | P. Prabhakar (Stanford University) Entropy and the Shannon Capacity of Queueing Systems |
| 3:30-3:45 | Afternoon Tea and End of Conference |