Overview
- Most recent advances in and examination of future research activities in queuing theory and network applications
- Five distinct Parts, covering: Queuing Processes, Single-Server Queues, Multiple Queues, Finite-Buffer Queues, and Network Applications
- Self-contained chapters on distinct issues and topics in the field
- Each chapter written by prominent researchers in the field and reviewed by at least two distinguished peers
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Single-Server Queues
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Finite-Buffer Queues
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Network Applications
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Back Matter
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About this book
Advances in Queueing Theory and Network Applications presents several useful mathematical analyses in queueing theory and mathematical models of key technologies in wired and wireless communication networks such as channel access controls, Internet applications, topology construction, energy saving schemes, and transmission scheduling. In sixteen high quality chapters, this work provides novel ideas, new analytical models, and simulation and experimental results by experts in the field of queueing theory and network applications.
The text serves as a state-of-the-art reference for a wide range of researchers and engineers engaged in the fields of queueing theory and network applications, and can also serve as supplemental material for advanced courses in operations research, queueing theory, performance analysis, traffic theory, as well as theoretical design and management of communication networks.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Wuyi Yue is a Doctor of Engineering in Applied Mathematics and Physics. She has worked for years in research and as a professor in her field. She is currently a professor at Konan University in Kobe, Japan, in the Department of Information Sciences and Systems Enginnering and the Faculty of Science and Engineering. She is also the Director of Intelligent Information and Communications Techonology. She has served as the organizing chair of many committees and international conferences, as well as published numerous monographs and journal articles.
Yutaka Takahashi has actively worked in the field of computer science, communication networks, operations research and systems science. He pioneered a technique for a nalzying the performance of queuing networks and was the founding co-chairman of the IFIP WG6.3 for Performance Evaluation of Communication Systems. He has organized and served on committees of hundreds of international conferences, and he has edited several books in his field.
Hideaki Takagi is a professor at the Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences at the University of Tsukuba, Japan. He received his doctorate of Physics from the University of California, Los Angeles, which he attended with the support of the IBM Japan Overseas Scholarship Program and a contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. He has worked in research and academia for years, and is curently the editor of the Performance Evaluation journal and the Queueing Systems journal.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Advances in Queueing Theory and Network Applications
Editors: Wuyi Yue, Yataka Takahashi, Hideaki Takagi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09703-9
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-09702-2
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-1883-3
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-09703-9
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 316
Topics: Communications Engineering, Networks, Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics, Complexity, Operations Research, Management Science, Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes, Information and Communication, Circuits