Instability of FIFO in the permanent sessions model at arbitrarily small network loads

  • Authors:
  • Matthew Andrews

  • Affiliations:
  • Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Algorithms (TALG)
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We show that for any r 0, there is a network of First-In-First-Out servers and a fixed set of sessions such that: —The network load is r with respect to the permanent sessions model with bounded arrivals. —The network can be made unstable.