The proliferation of local and global communication networks for computer and human communication, the development of parallel computers with large numbers of processors and the design of flexible and robust manufacturing systems, have increased the understanding of queuing theory. While research on queuing networks uses many of the traditional queuing insights, it is more concerned with how network components interact than with detailed models of how an individual queue behaves. Topics discussed in this book include: the conditions for stability of multiclass queuing networks; the challenges reflected in the Brownian motion which is set both as a mathematical object and as a modelling paradigm; the usefulness of ideas from the interacting particle system world; the application of large deviation theory; and the developing connections with optimization and dynamical systems theory.
- ISBN10 0387945318
- ISBN13 9780387945316
- Publish Date 13 June 1995
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 15 September 2016
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
- Edition 1995 ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 458
- Language English