Computer Networks and Systems: Queueing Theory and Performance Evaluation

✍ Scribed by Thomas G. Robertazzi (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 376
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This text, intended for a first course in performance evaluation, is a self-contained treatment covering all aspects of queuing theory. It starts by introducing readers to the terminology and usefulness of queuing theory and continues by considering Markovian queues in equilibrium, Little's law, reversibility, transient analysis, and computation, and computation, and the M/G/I queuing system. A subsequent chapter covers the product form solution for networks of queues, presenting a new and clear topological explanation for its existence, and presents case studies of distributed queuing networks arising in industrial applications. The final chapters explain techniques four numerical solutions, such as the convolution algorithm and mean-value analysis; discuss the panacea technique, discrete time queuing systems and simulation; and describe the new area of stochastic Petri networks. An appendix reviews probability theory. The second edition is thoroughly revised and brought up to date. It includes new material on the MVA algorithm, discrete time queues, and voice-data modeling.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
The Queueing Paradigm....Pages 1-18
Single Queueing Systems....Pages 19-100
Networks of Queues....Pages 101-162
Numerical Solution of Models....Pages 163-235
Stochastic Petri Nets....Pages 237-274
Discrete Time Queueing Systems....Pages 275-325
Back Matter....Pages 327-368

✦ Subjects

Operating Systems; Computer Communication Networks; Communications Engineering, Networks; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems