Queueing Networks
Customers, Signals and Product Form Solutions

by Xiuli Chao, Masakiyo Miyazawa, and Michael Pinedo

(Wiley-Interscience Series in Systems and Optimization)
John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, ISBN: 0471983098



Queueing networks are used in the performance evaluations and optimization of computer, communication, manufacturing, transportation, and other systems. This comprehensive and up-to-date text examines their foundations and basic methods, and details their numerous applications with distinct features. Discussion also includes a look at the fundamental structures of queueing network models, with coverage of signals not usually found in other books. Fully illustrated with examples and supplemented with exercises, the book also sheds light on the direction of future research.

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With the advances in information technology, many networks have, in addition to conventional jobs or customers, signals and messages circulating throughout the system. A signal carries information and instructions and may trigger complex simultaneous events. The objective of this book is to present, in a unified framework, the latest developments in queueing networks with tractable analytical solutions. After introducing the foundations in the first four chapters, Chapters 5 through 8 cover a number of different queueing network models with various features. Chapter 9 to 11 focus on more fundamental structures of queueing networks and Chapter 12 presents framework for discrete time queueing network models. The text is illustrated throughout with numerous examples.

Graduate students in operations research, computer science, industrial engineering, electrical engineering, statistics, and applied mathematics will find this text accessible and invaluable. An essential reference for operations researchers and computer scientists working on queueing problems in computing, manufacturing, and communication networks.

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