Reordering heuristics for routing in communications networks
Donald M. Topkis · Journal of Applied Probability · 1986
Move-to-front and move-to-back heuristics are considered for adaptively reordering routing tables in communications networks. Limiting properties are established for Markov chain models of these heuristics. The limiting distributions of the number of path attempts per call for the two heuristics and for a fixed random permutation are stochastically ordered.