Affiliations: Department of Electrical Engineering, Campus Box 1127, Washington University, St Louis, MO 63130, USA, Tel.: +1 314 935 8584, Fax: +1 314 935 7500, E-mail: psm@ee.wustl.edu | Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA | Department of Electrical Engineering, Campus Box 1127, Washington University, St Louis, MO 63130, USA
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Abstract: This paper investigates the performance of banyan-based copy networks with internal buffering. By using certain simplifying assumptions, we develop a model that is computationally feasible and that takes into account the special characteristics of the next-to-boundary states of the buffer modules, viz., the increased arrival rate to buffers in state b−1 (where b is the size of the buffer modules) and the increased departure rate in state 1.
