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Probability, Stochastic Processes, and Queueing Theory: The Mathematics of Computer Performance Modeling

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This book is suitable for my graduate studies on computer performance. The author directs us from combinatorics, distribution theory, queue theory to queueing networks in a systematic way. I have read the book at ease for its stepwise elaboration of concepts. However, I have also read with hardship as it requires the readers to possess a good command of mathematics, both pure and applied, in order to go through the book.

For a mathematics graduate studying computer networks, I recommend this book. A novice or a mediocrity should pay more patience to read if not yet at a loss.

This book has aroused my interest and eagerness to know more about computer performance from the viewpoint of queueing and networking. In a word, I enjoy reading this book.

This book provides an excellent introduction to Discrete Distributions and their relationships in a sense that goes beyond the classical presenation in other text books. It has excellent introductory chapters on Markov Processes and Matrix Geormetric Systems. I think this book is a great book that can help in courses in Queuing and probability theory.

I have not really read this book chapter by chapter, but I always found in this book the information I needed. I initially borrowed this book from library, only to find that I simply need this book to be on my shelf for convenient reference whenever I need to understand a concept or analysis I come across somewhere else!

I only use this book as a reference, but it is a good one. I do not give it 5 stars simply because I am not sure whether all the chapters in the book are equally well written. But for the chapters (or pages) I have read, it is a great one.