Queues A Course in Queueing Theory /

• Main Author: Haviv, Moshe (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, 191
• Subjects: Business.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Mathematical models.; Management science.; Business and Management.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Operations Research, Management Science.; Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics.

Queueing theory (the mathematical theory of waiting lines in all its configurations) continues to be a standard major area of operations research on the stochastic side.  Therefore, universities with an active program in operations research sometimes will have an entire course devoted mainly or enti...

Table of Contents:

• The Exponential Distribution and the Poisson Process
• Introduction to Renewal Theory
• Introduction to Markov Chains
• From Single Server Queues to M/G/1
• Priorities and Scheduling in M/G/1
• M/G/1 Using Markov Chains and LSTs
• The G/M/1 Queueing System
• Continuous-time Markov Chains and Memoryless Queues
• Open Networks of Exponential Queues
• Closed Networks of Exponential Queues
• Insensitivity and Product-form Queueing Models
• Two-dimensional Markov Processes and their Applications to Memoryless Queues.