Queueing Networks: Customers, Signals and Product Form Solutions

Queueing networks are used in the performance evaluations and optimization of computer, communication, manufacturing, transportation and other systems. Covering the foundations and basic methods of mathematical analysis of queueing problems, this text focuses on the fundamental structures of queueing network models. It examines applications with distinct features and discusses future research developments in the subject. Including coverage of signals, it uses many illustrative examples and exercises to give a comprehensive examination of the field.