| Article ID: | iaor1994982 |
| Country: | France |
| Volume: | 26 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Start Page Number: | 153 |
| End Page Number: | 175 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 1992 |
| Journal: | RAIRO Operations Research |
| Authors: | Pellaumail J. |
| Keywords: | matrices |
In the performance evaluation of the ‘Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)’ a fundamental and difficult question arises: is it possible to limit the loss of messages by using buffers? For computing such a loss, an algorithm is stated; this algorithm is explicit, fast and needs only few memories. It rests upon a decomposition theorem for some