Stochastic fluid flow models for determining optimal switching thresholds

In order to do that, we use a stochastic fluid-flow model with two buffers, one for the agent that runs the routine tasks and the other for the remaining non-routine jobs at the CPU. Input to the two buffers are from on-off sources and the processor switches between the two buffers using a threshold-based policy. We develop analytical approximations for the buffer content distribution and determine the Quality of Service (QoS) experienced by the two sources of traffic. We use the QoS performance measures to formulate and solve an optimization problem to design an optimal threshold value.