Stability of Queueing Networks École d'Été de Probabilités de Saint-Flour XXXVI - 2006 /

• Main Author: Bramson, Maury (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 1950
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Computer organization.; Operations research.; Management science.; Probabilities.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.; Operations Research, Management Science.; Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks.

Queueing networks constitute a large family of stochastic models, involving jobs that enter a network, compete for service, and eventually leave the network upon completion of service. Since the early 1990s, substantial attention has been devoted to the question of when such networks are stable. Thi...

Table of Contents:

• The Classical Networks
• Instability of Subcritical Queueing Networks
• Stability of Queueing Networks
• Applications and Some Further Theory.