Fundamentals of Queueing Networks
Subtitle: Performance, Asymptotics, and Optimization
By: by Hong Chen, David D. Yao
Contributors: Yao, David D.
Series: Stochastic Modelling and Applied Probability -- 46; Stochastic modelling and applied probability -- 46.
Publisher: Springer New York
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9781441928962; 9781475753011
Subjects: Mathematics; Distribution (Probability theory); Statistics; Operations research
Description: This accessible and timely book collects in a single volume the essentials of stochastic networks, from the classical product-form theory to the more recent developments such as diffusion and fluid limits, stochastic comparisons, stability, control (dynamic scheduling) and optimization. The book was developed from the authors' teaching stochastic networks over many years. It will be useful to students from engineering, business, mathematics, and probability and statistics. As stochastic networks have become widely used as a basic model of many physical systems in a diverse range of fields, the book can also be used as a reference or supplementary readings for courses in operations research, computer systems, communication networks, production planning and logistics, and by practitioners in the field.
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Table of contents: title: Preface; title: 1. Birth-Death Queues; title: 2. Jackson Networks; title: 3. Stochastic Comparisons; title: 4. Kelly Networks; title: 5. Technical Desiderata; title: 6. Single-Station Queues; title: 7. Generalized Jackson Networks; title: 8. A Two-Station Multi-Class Network; title: 9. Feedforward Networks; title: 10. Brownian Approximations; title: 11. Conservation Laws; title: 12. Scheduling of Fluid Networks; title: Index.