ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems

We consider a strategic resource pooling interaction between two service providers, each of which is modelled as a multi-server queue. The traditional full resource pooling mechanism, while improving the overall system performance measure, may not always ...

A server subject to random breakdowns and repairs offers services to incoming jobs whose lengths are highly variable. A checkpointing policy is in operation, aiming to protect against possibly lengthy recovery periods by backing up the current state at ...