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Multiservice Loss Models for Broadband Telecommunication Networks (Telecommunication Networks and Computer Systems)

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This monography touches upon several aspects of loss networks: computation of product form probabilities, Erlang and Montecarlo approximation to loss probability, routing and admission decision. It very readable and summarizes the work done in the past 20 year, especially by Frank Kelly. The target application is ATM networks. One possible drawback of the approach used here is that the effective bandwidth of a session is assumed known a priori. In practice this approach has not been very effective, and alternative decision rules (e.g. measurement-based effective bandwidth) have been explored. Practical relevance of the approach aside, this is an excellent book.