Fundamentals of queueing networks : performance, asymptotics, and optimization / Hong Chen and David D. Yao.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This timely and synoptic text contains the essentials of queueing networks, from the classical product-form theory to the more recent developments such as diffusion and fluid limits, stochastic comparisons, stability, dynamic scheduling, and optimization. Tengineering, operations research and management, computer systems, telecommunhe book is based on the authors' lecture notes accumulated over many years of teaching queueing networks. As queueing networks have become widely used as a basic model of many physical systems in a diverse range of fields, from supply chains to communication networks, the book is also a useful reference for researchers and practitioners in industrial engineering, operations research and management, computer systems, telecommunications, and related fields.