Distribution of the number of retransmissions of bounded documents

DOI10.1239/AAP/1435236982zbMATH Open1337.60253arXiv1210.8421OpenAlexW2963087972MaRDI QIDQ5262448FDOQ5262448

Evangelia D. Skiani, Predrag R. Jelenković

Publication date: 15 July 2015

Published in: Advances in Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Retransmission-based failure recovery represents a primary approach in existing communication networks that guarantees data delivery in the presence of channel failures. Recent work has shown that, when data sizes have infinite support, retransmissions can cause long (-tailed) delays even if all traffic and network characteristics are light-tailed. In this paper we investigate the practically important case of bounded data units 0 <= L_b <= b under the condition that the hazard functions of the distributions of data sizes and channel statistics are proportional. To this end, we provide an explicit and uniform characterization of the entire body of the retransmission distribution Pr[N_b > n] in both n and b. Our main discovery is that this distribution can be represented as the product of a power law and Gamma distribution. This rigorous approximation clearly demonstrates the coupling of a power law distribution, dominating the main body, and the Gamma distribution, determining the exponential tail. Our results are validated via simulation experiments and can be useful for designing retransmission-based systems with the required performance characteristics. From a broader perspective, this study applies to any other system, e.g., computing, where restart mechanisms are employed after a job processing failure.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.8421

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zbMATH Keywords

power lawgamma distributioncommunication networksrestartheavy-tailed distributiontruncated distributionretransmissionlight-tailed distributionchannel with failure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Large deviations (60F10) Communication theory (94A05) Limit theorems in probability theory (60F99) Special processes (60K99) Communication networks in operations research (90B18) Network design and communication in computer systems (68M10)

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