A Course on Queuing Theory

As science becomes increasingly interdisciplinary, researchers are finding that engineering has much to offer those working in such diverse fields as management science, communications as well as in theoretical work and aspects of computation. This text is evidence of the inroads engineering is making, covering a broad range of theory and applications and emphasizing Markovian structures and the techniques of different models. The bank of international authors cover the basics of queues, including their features and characteristics, graphical methods, modeling, scope and organization, Markovian queues, including optimization, regenerative non-Markovian queues, computational methods, statistical inference and simulation, general queues, discrete-time queues in transient solutions, and miscellaneous topics such as priority queues, queues with infinite servers, design and control of queues, and networks. Each chapter includes exercises and the authors provide appendices with basic information on such topics as random variables, stochastic processes and statistical processes. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)