Publisher Summary This chapter discusses different approaches to performance evaluation
(PE) of discrete manufacturing systems that can be placed in three categories. These …

Introduction to Queueing Networks Page 1 Introduction to Queueing Networks Second
Edition Erol Gelenbe Duke University, North Carolina, USA and Guy Pujolle University of …

Statistical performance evaluation has assumed an increasing amount of importance as we
seek to design more and more sophisticated communication and information processing …

The text is designed for engineering students at the senior undergraduate level and first-
year students at graduate level, and professionals (R&D engineers in the industry and …

In a stochastic network, such as those in computer/telecommunications and manufacturing,
discrete units move among a network of stations where they are processed or served …

Analysis and Synthesis of Computer Systems presents a broad overview of methods that are
used to evaluate the performance of computer systems and networks, manufacturing …

The approach we employ in this chapter to study the stability of queueing networks employs
fluid limits and fluid models. Fluid models were discussed briefly in Section 1.3; we will …

This paper analyzes a mathematical model of a blocking system with simultaneous resource
possession. There are several multiserver service facilities without extra waiting space at …

In the present book a unified treatment of some basic problems in queueing theory using the
theory of stationary random marked point processes is given. More precisely, no …

Queuing networks are studied at selected points in the steady state, namely, at the moments
when jobs of a given class arrive into a given node (either from the outside or from other …