Queueing Networks: A Fundamental Approach

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
On Practical Product Form Characterizations....Pages 1-83
Order Independent Queues....Pages 85-120
Insensitivity in Stochastic Models....Pages 121-140
Palm Calculus, Reallocatable GSMP and Insensitivity Structure....Pages 141-215
Networks with Customers, Signals, and Product Form Solution....Pages 217-267
Discrete Time Networks with Product Form Steady States....Pages 269-312
Decomposition and Aggregation in Queueing Networks....Pages 313-344
Stochastic Comparison of Queueing Networks....Pages 345-395
Error Bounds and Comparison Results: The Markov Reward Approach For Queueing Networks....Pages 397-459
Stability of Join-the-Shortest-Queue networks: Analysis by Fluid Limits....Pages 461-487
Methods in Diffusion Approximation for Multi-Server Systems: Sandwich, Uniform Attraction and State-Space Collapse....Pages 489-530
Queueing Networks with Gaussian Inputs....Pages 531-560
Mean Values Techniques....Pages 561-586
Response Time Distributions in Networks of Queues....Pages 587-641
Decomposition-Based Queueing Network Analysis with FiFiQueues....Pages 643-699
Loss Networks....Pages 701-728
A Queueing Analysis of Data Networks....Pages 729-765
Modeling a Hospital Queueing Network....Pages 767-798