A text and reference on queueing theory, covering everything from the development of standard models to applications. The focus is on real analysis of queueing systems applications and problem solving. The second edition has been expanded to include new material on statistical inference in queueing and updated to reflect changes in simulation languages and new results in statistical analysis of simulation output such as regenerative techniques. The book contains a new section on the fundamentals of Markov processes, in addition to new chapters on advanced Markov Models, queueing networks, and bounds and approximations.
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"...this is one of the best books available for use as a textbook for a course and for an applied reference book. Its excellent organizational structure allows quick reference to specific models and its clear presentation coupled with the use of the QTS software solidifies the understanding of the concepts being presented. I highly recommend this book to educators and applied researchers." --IEE Transactions on Operations Engineering
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"This exceptional book is a most welcome text for advanced university undergraduate and/or graduate students. It is built on the solid foundation of the three previous widely acclaimed editions since 1975 that have been among the few cornerstones of texts in the field. The new edition contains a superb blend of theoretical and contemporary real-world examples."
–Dr. Percy Brill, Department of Management Science and Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Windsor --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
–Dr. Percy Brill, Department of Management Science and Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Windsor --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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The Classic Queueing Theory Text,
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This review is from: Fundamentals of Queueing Theory (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics) (Hardcover)
Fundamentals of Queueing Theory (third edition) by D. Gross and C. Harris is THE classic queueing text book. It is up-to-date, thorough, rigorous, intuitive, and even fun to read (for the mathematically inclined). This book can be read at different levels, none of them easy. It is intended for an audience of graduate students in operations research, industrial engineering, management science, or mathematics. There are other excellent queueing books out there, but this has to be the overall best seller! Highly recommended.
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I used this book to supplement a course in queuing theory and found it to be more readable than other books on the topic, including ELEMENTS OF QUEUING THEORY WITH APPLICATIONS. This may not be a book to pick up for casual reading to learn about queuing theory, but if you are taking a queuing-theory course, I would highly recommend it. I struggled with deciding to give this book four or five stars: Four stars because I feel that the derivations of various queuing models could have been presented in a clearer manner. Five stars because I think it's the most readable queuing-theory book I have encountered.
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Good text,
This review is from: Fundamentals of Queueing Theory (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics) (Hardcover)
I always recommend Kleinrock's "Queueing systems Volume I: Theory" to my friends for learning the basics of queueing theory. But "Fundamentals of queueing theory" is an excellent text to have. I find it much easier to find the necessary pages to refresh my memory on an equation or a specific approach to solving a problem when using Gross and Harris.
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residual vacation time, expected system size, rate transition diagram, random interarrival time, partial generating functions, random service time, virtual wait, average system size, cyclic queues, imbedded chain, rate balance equations, stochastic balance, residual service time, retrial queue, system waiting time, interdeparture times, queueing situations, primary arrivals, remaining service time, series queues, traffic equations, mean service time, nth customer, mean service rate, queueing models Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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residual vacation time, expected system size, rate transition diagram, random interarrival time, partial generating functions, random service time, virtual wait, average system size, cyclic queues, imbedded chain, rate balance equations, stochastic balance, residual service time, retrial queue, system waiting time, interdeparture times, queueing situations, primary arrivals, remaining service time, series queues, traffic equations, mean service time, nth customer, mean service rate, queueing models Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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