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Queues and Lévy Fluctuation Theory

  • Combines Lévy-based fluctuation theory and queueing theory
  • Studies the possibilities of fluctuation-theoretic elements and the connection to queues
  • Applicable for both an applied- and a theory-oriented audience
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. Introduction

    • Krzysztof Dębicki, Michel Mandjes
    Pages 1-6
  3. Lévy Processes and Lévy-Driven Queues

    • Krzysztof Dębicki, Michel Mandjes
    Pages 7-22
  4. Steady-State Workload

    • Krzysztof Dębicki, Michel Mandjes
    Pages 23-47
  5. Transient Workload

    • Krzysztof Dębicki, Michel Mandjes
    Pages 49-66
  6. Heavy Traffic

    • Krzysztof Dębicki, Michel Mandjes
    Pages 67-80
  7. Busy Period

    • Krzysztof Dębicki, Michel Mandjes
    Pages 81-95
  8. Workload Correlation Function

    • Krzysztof Dębicki, Michel Mandjes
    Pages 97-104
  9. Stationary Workload Asymptotics

    • Krzysztof Dębicki, Michel Mandjes
    Pages 105-117
  10. Transient Asymptotics

    • Krzysztof Dębicki, Michel Mandjes
    Pages 119-129
  11. Simulation of Lévy-Driven Queues

    • Krzysztof Dębicki, Michel Mandjes
    Pages 131-141
  12. Variants of the Standard Queue

    • Krzysztof Dębicki, Michel Mandjes
    Pages 143-159
  13. Lévy-Driven Tandem Queues

    • Krzysztof Dębicki, Michel Mandjes
    Pages 161-179
  14. Lévy-Driven Queueing Networks

    • Krzysztof Dębicki, Michel Mandjes
    Pages 181-196
  15. Applications in Communication Networks

    • Krzysztof Dębicki, Michel Mandjes
    Pages 197-207
  16. Applications in Mathematical Finance

    • Krzysztof Dębicki, Michel Mandjes
    Pages 209-233
  17. Computational Aspects: Inversion Techniques

    • Krzysztof Dębicki, Michel Mandjes
    Pages 235-243
  18. Concluding Remarks

    • Krzysztof Dębicki, Michel Mandjes
    Pages 245-245
  19. Back Matter

    Pages 247-255

About this book

The book provides an extensive introduction to queueing models driven by Lévy-processes as well as a systematic account of the literature on Lévy-driven queues. The objective is to make the reader familiar with the wide set of probabilistic techniques that have been developed over the past decades, including transform-based techniques, martingales, rate-conservation arguments, change-of-measure, importance sampling, and large deviations. On the application side, it demonstrates how Lévy traffic models arise when modelling current queueing-type systems (as communication networks) and includes applications to finance.

Queues and Lévy Fluctuation Theory will appeal to postgraduate students and researchers in mathematics, computer science, and electrical engineering. Basic prerequisites are probability theory and stochastic processes.

Reviews

“The book presents, often in summary fashion, virtually all of the known results on Lévy-driven queues, quite a few of them obtained by the authors of this book, and thus it is ideal for a researcher who would like to enter this area. … I found the sketchy treatment of many results extremely useful and motivating. The list of references is complete, and a small number of useful exercises are included at the end of each chapter.” (Michael A. Zazanis, Mathematical Reviews, May, 2017)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Mathematical Institute, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland

    Krzysztof Dębicki

  • Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathemat, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Michel Mandjes

About the authors

Krzysztof Dębicki is a professor at the University of Wrocław, Poland. His research interests lie in extreme value analysis of stochastic processes and their applications in risk and queueing theory. His work is focused on extremes and boundary crossing probabilities of Gaussian and Lévy processes, limit theorems and stochastic networks. He serves as an associate editor of Queueing Systems and Probability and Mathematical Statistics.

Michel Mandjes is a professor at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands; he is also part-time with Eurandom and CWI; he previously worked at Bell Labs (Murray Hill), and had a sabbatical at Stanford. His research focuses on queueing theory and stochastic process analysis, with operations-research-type applications. He is author of the book Large Deviations for Gaussian Queues. He serves as an associate editor of Queueing Systems, Stochastic Systems, Stochastic Models, and Advances in Applied Probability / Journal of Applied Probability.

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eBook USD 44.99
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Softcover Book USD 59.99
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