Using fluid models to prove stability of adversarial queueing networks

A digital communication network can be modeled as an adversarial queueing network. An adversarial queueing network is defined to be stable if the number of packets stags bounded over time. A central question is to determine which adversarial queueing networks are stable under every work-conserving packet routing policy. Our main result is that stability of an adversarial queueing network is implied by stability of an associated fluid queueing network.

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