A Queue with Multiple Stable Regions

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• Victor Li (University of Hong Kong)
• Wednesday 08 July 2009, 15:00-16:00
• FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

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The stable region of a queue consists of all values of the system parameters for the queue to be stable. A queue can have multiple stable regions, such that the probability law governing the system has different functional forms in different stable regions and hence the performance of the system cannot be captured only by the parameter values. We analyze a queue with multiple stable regions, and explain why such a queue is not amenable to current queueing theory.

Bio: Victor O.K. Li (http://www.eee.hku.hk/staff_personal/vli.htm) received SB, SM, EE and ScD degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1977, 1979, 1980, and 1981, respectively. He joined the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, California, USA in February 1981, and became Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of the USC Communication Sciences Institute. Since September 1997 he has been with the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, where he is Associate Dean (Research) of Engineering, and Chair Professor of Information Engineering. He also served as Managing Director of Versitech Ltd. (http://www.versitech.com.hk/), the technology transfer and commercial arm of the University, from September 1997 to June 2004. Prof. Li serves on various corporate boards. His research is in information technology, including all-optical networks, wireless networks, and Internet technologies and applications. Sought by government, industry, and academic organizations, he has lectured and consulted extensively around the world. Prof. Li is very active in the research community, and has chaired various international conferences and served on the editorial boards of various international journals. He has given distinguished lectures at various universities around the world, and keynote speeches at many international conferences. Prof. Li has received numerous awards, including the PRC Ministry of Education Changjiang Chair Professorship at Tsinghua University, Beijing, the UK Royal Academy of Engineering Senior Visiting Fellowship in Communications, the KC Wong Education Foundation Lectureship, the Croucher Foundation Senior Research Fellowship, and the Order of the Bronze Bauhinia Star, Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China. He was elected an IEEE Fellow in 1992.

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