NDLI: Evaluation of overflow probabilities in resource management

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Verma, D.C. Ferrari, D.
Copyright Year	1992
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA (Verma, D.C.; Ferrari, D.)
Abstract	In a number of network and database management applications, an upper bound has to be evaluated on the probability that the capacity of a server will be exceeded. The authors refer to this probability as the overflow probability of the server. The problem is, in essence, determining the probability that the sum of N independent random variables exceeds a given threshold. Evaluation of the overflow probability by brute-force enumeration requires a computation time which increases exponentially with N, so attempts have been made to approximate the overflow probability using Chernoff bounds. They present a simple scheme that can be used to evaluate the overflow probability with higher accuracy and lower computational effort than the Chernoff bounds approach. A set of algorithms is presented in C-like pseudocode that can be used to evaluate the overflow probability.<>
Starting Page	1212
Ending Page	1216
File Size	434898
Page Count	5
File Format	PDF
ISBN	078030599X
DOI	10.1109/ICC.1992.268048
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	1992-06-14
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Resource management Computer networks Databases Bandwidth Asynchronous transfer mode Network servers Switches Computer science Computer network management Upper bound
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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