New York, USA: Springer, 306 pp. pages, 1990.
Abstract: This self-contained text, intended for a course in performance evaluation, covers all aspects of queueing theory. It starts by introducing readers to the terminology of queueing theory. Chapter two then covers Markovian queues in equilibrium, Little's Law, reversibility, transient analysis and computation, and the M/G/1 queueing system. Chapter three begins with coverage of the product form solutions for networks of queues and presents an algebraic topological explanation of its existence. Chapter four explains numerical solution techniques such as the convolution algorithm and mean value analysis. The last chapter describes the new area of stochastic Petri networks.
Keywords: computer network; queueing theory; performance evaluation; Markov queue; product form solution; convolution algorithm; stochastic net theory.