A bibliography of books and survey papers on queueing systems: Theory and applications

In response to the Editorial Introduction (Queueing Systems I (1986), 1-4) the author received several suggestions for additional books that deserved mention. Rather than publishing a supplementary note to that article, the author thought it might perhaps be worthwhile to compile a more complete bibliography of books and important papers on queueing theory. The following is such a bibliography. In section 1 we list important books that serve as valuable sources for the work done during the pioneering phase of queueing theory. This list includes the two survey papers by Kendall. Several other papers should perhaps have been included, but the author decided against it. Many of the books listed here are now out of print, and others are out of date. Even so this list provides a historical perspective. Section 2 contains books on elementary queueing theory with emphasis on applications, and in section 3 are listed advanced books and monographs on a wide variety of special topics. Books on computer performance and data communications systems are listed separately in sections 4 and 5, as these two areas have become increasingly important. Problems in teletraffic have motivated much of the earlier research in queueing theory; nevertheless this is an independent topic by itself, so it is covered by section 6, along with other related topics such as road traffic and scheduling. Numerical tables and simulation are included in section 7. In the final section 8 we list books of general interest whose scope goes beyond queueing theory, but are considered to be very important sources on the subject. Many textbooks on probability, statistics and operations research include some material on queueing systems, but they do not merit a place in a bibliography of this type. A few books in languages other than English are included, but this list is far from complete in this respect. The author is grateful to the associate editors for bringing to his attention several important works of reference.