Fundamentals of Queueing Networks: Performance, Asymptotics, and Optimization

Preface.- 1. Birth-Death Queues.- 2. Jackson Networks.- 3. Stochastic Comparisons.- 4. Kelly Networks.- 5. Technical Desiderata.- 6. Single-Station Queues.- 7. Generalized Jackson Networks.- 8. A Two-Station Multi-Class Network.- 9. Feedforward Networks.- 10. Brownian Approximations.- 11. Conservation Laws.- 12. Scheduling of Fluid Networks.- Index.