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Department of Mathematics & Computer Science

Dr. Mohan Chaudhry

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Royal Military College of Canada

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Books on Queues

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Discrete-time queues

  1. Bruneel, H. and Kim, B.G., Discrete-Time Models for Communication Systems Including ATM, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston (1993).
  2. Christos G. Cassandras (Boston University) and Stéphane Lafortune (The University of Michigan) Introduction to Discrete Event Systems. Published in September 1999 by KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS, 848 pages. Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-8609-4 More info. on the book: Introduction to Discrete Event Systems
  3. Hans DADUNA. Queueing Networks with Discrete Time Scale Explicit Expressions for the Steady State Behavior of Discrete Time Stochastic Networks . 2001. X, 138 pp. Softcover 3-540-42357-5
  4. Hideaki Takagi. 1993. Queueing Analysis Vol. 3. Discrete-Time Systems. 484 pages. North-Holland; ISBN: 0444816119
  5. Hunter, J.J., Mathematical Techniques of Applied Probability, Vol. II, Discrete Time Models: Techniques and Applications, Academic Press, NY (1983).
  6. Kobayashi, H., Discrete-Time Queueing Systems. In Probability Theory and Computer Science, Louchard, G., G. Latouche, (eds.), Academic Press, NY (1983).
  7. Kouvatsos, D.D., Performance Modelling and Evaluation of ATM Networks, Chapman Hall, London, 1995.
  8. Sohraby, K. 1995.  Discrete Time Queueing Theory. Springer Verlag. (ISBN 0387198822)
  9. Woodward, M.E., Communication and Computer Networks: Modelling with Discrete-Time Queues, California IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, California, (1994).

Continuous-time queues

  1. Allen, A.O., Probability, Statistics and Queueing Theory with Computer Science Applications, Academic Press, NY (1978).
  2. Amussen, S., Applied Probability and Queues, Wiley, NY (1987).
  3. Arnold O. Allen. 1990. Probability, statistics, and queueing theory: with computer science applications. Second ed. 768 pp. Academic Press, New York. ISBN 0-12-051-051-0.
  4. Bacelli, F. and Bremaud, P., Elements of Queueing Theory: Palm-Martingale Calculus and Stochastic Recurrences, Springer-Verlag, NY (1994).
  5. Borovkov, A.A., Asymptotic Methods in Queueing Theory, Wiley, NY (1984).
  6. Brian D. Bunday. An introduction to queueing theory. 205 pages. Oxford Univ Press; ISBN: 0340662395.
  7. Bunday, B.D. 1986. Basic Queuing Theory . Publ: Edward Arnold. ISBN 0713135700.
  8. Chaudhry, M.L. and Templeton, J.G.C., A First Course on Bulk Queues, Wiley, NY (1983).
  9. Chee Hock Ng. 1997. Queueing Modelling Fundamentals. 234 pages. John Wiley & Son Ltd; ISBN: 0471968196.
  10. Cohen, J.W. and Boxma, O.J., Boundary Value Problems in Queueing System Analysis, North Holland, NY (1983).
  11. Cohen, J.W., The Single Server Queue North-Holland, NY (1982).
  12. Cooper, R.B., Introduction to Queueing Theory, 2nd. edition, North-Holland, NY (1981).
  13. Courtois, P.J., Decomposability: Queueing and Computer System Applicators, Academic Press, NY (1977).
  14. D. R. Cox, Walter L. Smith. 1999. Queues. CRC Press; ISBN: 0412109301
  15. G. F. Newell. 1982. Applications of Queueing Theory . 2nd ed., 303 pp. Chapman & Hall. ISBN: 0412245000.
  16. Gnedenko, B.V. and Kovalenko, I.N. 1989. Introduction to Queueing Theory, Second Edition. 314 pp. Birkhauser. ISBN 0-8176-3423-1.
  17. Gross, Donald, and Harris, Carl. 1998. Fundamentals of Queueing Theory. 3rd Edition.  439 pp. 0-471-17083-6
  18. H.M. Srivastava and B.R.K. Kashyap. 1982. Special Functions in Queuing Theory and Related Stochasic Processes . 308 pp. Academic Press. ISBN: 0126606501.
  19. Hideaki Takagi. 1991. Queueing Analysis Vol. 1. Vacation and Priority Systems. 488 pages. North-Holland; ISBN: 0444889108
  20. Hideaki Takagi. 1993. Queueing Analysis Vol. 2. Finite Systems 560 pages. North-Holland; ISBN: 0444816143
  21. Hillier, F.S. and Yu, O.S., Queueing Tables and Graphs, North-Holland, NY (1981).
  22. J. Medhi. 1991. Stochastic Models in Queueing Theory. Academic Press. ISBN 0124875505.
  23. Jaiswal, J., Priority Queues, Academic Press, NY (1968).
  24. Kashyap, B.R.K. and Chaudhry, M.L., An Introduction to Queueing Theory, A&A Publications, Kingston, Ontario (1988).
  25. Kishor Trivedi. 2001. Probability and Statistics with Reliability, Queuing, and Computer Science Applications, 2nd Edition . Wiley. ISBN: 0-471-33341-7.
  26. Kleinrock, L., Queueing Systems Vol. 1: Theory, Wiley, NY (1975).
  27. Kleinrock, L., Queueing Systems Vol. 2: Computer Applications, Wiley, NY (1976).
  28. Lee, A.M., Applied Queueing Theory, St. Martin's Press, NY (1966).
  29. Leonard Kleinrock and Richard Gail. 1996. Queueing Systems : Problems and Solutions. 227 pages. John Wiley & Sons; ISBN: 0471555681.
  30. Lester Lipsky. 1992. Queueing Theory. 384 pp. Macmillan Publishing. ISBN: 0023709629.
  31. Linn I. Sennott. 1998. Stochastic Dynamic Programming and the Control of Queueing Systems . 328 pages. John Wiley & Sons; ISBN: 0471161209
  32. Lipsky, L., Queueing Theory, MacMillan, NY (1992).
  33. Marcel F. Neuts. 1989. Structured Stochastic Matrices of M/g/1 Type and Their Applications.
  34. Marcel F. Neuts. 1995. Matrix-Geometric Solutions in Stochastic Models: An Algorithmic Approach. 332 pages. Dover Pubns; ISBN: 0486683427. First Published in 1981 by Johns Hopkins Univesity Press. 
  35. Medhi, J., Recent Developments in Bulk Queueing Models, Wiley Eastern, New Delhi (1984).
  36. Medhi, J., Stochastic Models in Queueing Theory, Academic Press, NY (1991).
  37. Meyer, Carl D. (1993). Linear Algebra, Markov Chains, and Queueing Theory. Springer Verlag. New York. (ISBN 0387940855)
  38. Neuts, M.F., Matrix-Geometric Solutions in Stochastic Models - Algorithmic Approach, The John Hopkin's University Press, Baltimore (1981).
  39. Neuts, M.F., Structured Stochastic Matrices of M/G/1 Type and Their Applications, Marcel Dekker, NY (1989).
  40. Newell, G.F., Applications of Queueing Theory, 2nd edition. University Press, Cambridge, England (1982).
  41. O.P. Sharma. 1990. Markovian Queues (Ellis Horwood Series in Mathematics and Its Applications). Ellis Horwood Ltd; ISBN: 0135531578.
  42. Papadopoulous, H.T., Heavey, C. and Browne, J., Queueing Theory in Manufacturing Systems and Design Chapman & Hall, NY (1993).
  43. Prabhu, N.U., Queues and Inventories, Wiley, NY (1965).
  44. Prabhu, N.U., Stochastic Storage Processes: Queues, Insurance Risk and Dams, Springer-Verlag, NY (1980).
  45. Randolph Nelson. Probability, Stochastic Processes, and Queueing Theory: The Mathematics of Computer Performance Modelling . 583pp. Springer. New York. ISBN: 0387944524. 1st ed. 1995. Corr. 3rd printing 2000. XXVIII,
  46. Randolph W. Hall. 1991. Queueing Methods: For Services and Manufacturing . 476pp. Prentice Hall. ISBN: 0137447566.
  47. Robertazzi, T.G., Computer Networks and Systems: Queueing Theory and Performance Evaluation, Springer-Verlag, NY (1990).
  48. Ronald W. Wolff. 1989. Stochastic Modeling and the Theory of Queues. 560 pp. (Prentice Hall International Series in Industrial and Systems Engineering). ISBN: 0138466920
  49. Ruiz-Palá, E., Ávila-Beloso, C., and Hines, W.H., Waiting Line Models: An Introduction to Their Theory and Application, Reinhold Publishing Corporation, NY (1967).
  50. S. Ozekici (Editor). 1990. Queuing Theory and Applications (Proceedings of the Arab School of Science and Technology). Hemisphere Pub; ISBN: 0891169954.
  51. Saaty, T.L., Elements of Queueing Theory with Applications, McGraw-Hill, NY (1961).
  52. Sanjay BOSE. 2001. An Introduction to Queueing Systems. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. Hardbound, ISBN 0-306-46734-8. December 2001. Small portions of An Introduction to Queueing Systems (plus solution manual and sample tests) are available on line
  53.  Seelen, L.P., Tijms, H.C., and Van Hoorn, M.H., Tables for Multi-Server Queues, North Holland, NY (1985).
  54. Sharma, O.P., Markovian Queues, Ellis Harwood, NY (1990).
  55. Soren Asmussen. 1987. Applied Probability and Queues, John Wiley and Sons. 318 pp. ISBN 0-471-91173-9
  56. Soren Asmussen. 2000. Ruin Probabilities . World Scientific Publishers.
  57. Srivastava, H.M., and Kashyap, B.R.K., Special Functions in Queueing Theory and Related Stochastic Processes, Academic Press, NY (1982).
  58. Stoyan, D., Comparison Methods for Queues and Other Stochastic Models, Wiley, NY (1983).
  59. Takács, L., Introduction to the Theory of Queues, Oxford University Press, NY (1962).
  60. Thomas Robertazzi. Computer Networks and Systems: Queueing Theory and Performance Evaluation. Third Edition. 2000. Springer-Verlag. A self-contained 1st year graduate level text in queueing theory and performance evaluation with particular applicability to computer networks and systems. This text contains 158 homework problems. A solutions manual is available to instructors in courses. ISBN:0-387-95037-0. Ordering information for Computer Networks and Systems: Queueing Theory and Performance Evaluation is available
  61. Tijms, H.C., Stochastic Modelling and Analysis: A Computational Approach, NY, Wiley (1986).
  62. Tijms, Henk C. (1994). Stochastic Models: An Algorithmic Approach. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester.
  63. Tilt, B. 1981. Solution Manual for R.B. Cooper's Introduction to Queueing Theory. Second Edition. Norht Holland, Elsevier, Amsterdam.
  64. U. Narayan Bhat, Ishwar V. Basawa (Editor). 1992. Queuing and Related Models . 348 pp. (Oxford Statistical Science Series, No 9) Oxford University Press; ISBN: 0198522339.
  65. Walrand, J., An Introduction to Queueing Theory, Prentice-Hall, NJ (1988).
  66. Ward Whitt. STOCHASTIC-PROCESS LIMITS. (An Introduction to Stochastic-Process Limits And their Application to Queues). Springer-Verlag. 2002. 650 pages, hardcover, ISBN: 0-387-95358-2. For information about the book: STOCHASTIC-PROCESS LIMITS
  67. White, J.A., Schmidt, J.W., and Bennett, C.K., Analysis of Queueing Systems, Academic Press, NY (1975).
  68. Wolff, R.W., Stochastic Modelling and the Theory of Queues, Prentice-Hall, NJ (1968).

Other Materials or Selected Topics on Queues

  1. Adam Shwartz and Alan Weiss. (1995). Large Deviations for Performance Analysis: Queues, Communications, and Computing. Chapman and Hall. 560 pp. ISBN 0-412-06411-5
  2. Alexander Ost. 2001. Performance of Communication Systems - A Model-Based Approach with Matrix-Geometric Methods . Springer. Berlin, March 2001, ISBN 3-540-41438-X. 290 pages.
  3. Attahiru S. Alfa, Srinivas R. Chakravarthy (Editors). 1998. Advances in Matrix-Analytic Methods for Stochastic Models. Notable Publications, Inc.; ISBN: 0966584708.
  4. Boudewijn R. Haverkort. 1998. Performance of Computer Communication Systems : A Model-Based Approach. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN: 0471972282
  5. Carmichael, D.G., Engineering Queues in Construction and Mining, Ellis-Harwood, West Sussex, England (1987).
  6. Chakravarthy, S. and Alfa, A.S., editors. 1997. Matrix Analytic Methods in Stochastic Models, 375 pp. ISBN 0-8247-9766-3. Marcel Dekker, Inc.
  7. Conway, A.E. and Georganas, N.D., 1989. Queueing Networks - Exact Computational Algorithms: A Unified Theory based on Decomposition and Aggregation. 234 pp. MIT Press. Cambridge, MA. ISBN 0-262-03145-0
  8. D.G. Carmicheal. 1987. Engineering Queues in Construction and Mining. 378 pp. Halsted Press/Ellis Horwood Ltd.
  9. Daigle, J.N., Queueing Theory for Telecommunications, Addison-Wesley, NY (1992).
  10. David Jagerman. 2000. Difference Equations with Applications to Queues. Marcel Dekker. Pure and Applied Mathematics Series. Volume: 233. 262 Pages, ISBN: 0-8247-0388-X.
  11. David Johnson (Editor), Catherine C. McGeoch (Editor). 2001. Priority Queues Dictionaries, and Multi-Dimensional Point Sets Fifth Dimacs Implementation Challenge (Dimacs: Series in Discrete Mathematics). Amer Mathematical Society; ISBN: 0821806890.
  12. Disney, M., R.L. and Kiessler, P.C., Traffic Processes in Queueing Networks: A Markov Renewal Approach, John Hopkin's University Press, Baltimore, Maryland (1987).
  13. Edward D. Lazowska, John Zahorjan, G. Scott Graham, Kenneth C. Sevcik. (1984). Quantitative System Performance : Computer system analysis using queueing network models. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J. (417 pp.) This book Quantitative System Performance : Computer system analysis using queueing network models is available on line (for free)
  14. Erol Gelenbe, Guy Pujolle. 1998. Introduction to Queueing Networks. 2nd ed. The first edition was 1987. John Wiley Publ. 0-471-96294-5
  15. F.I. Karpelevich, A. Ya. Kreinin. 1994. Heavy Traffic Limits for Multiphase Queues (Translations of Mathematical Monographs, Vol 137) American Mathematical Society; ISBN: 0821845977.
  16. Fima C Klebaner (University of Melbourne) (fima@ms.unimelb.edu.au) INTRODUCTION TO STOCHASTIC CALCULUS WITH APPLICATIONS, $48.00 Hardcover - 300 pages (September 1, 1999) Imperial College Pr; ISBN: 186094129X, available amazon.com See Errata .
  17. G. Latouche, V. Ramaswami. 1999. Introduction to Matrix Analytic Methods in Stochastic Modeling. (Asa-Siam Series on Statistics and Applied Probability). Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics; ISBN: 0898714257
  18. Gunter Bolch, Stefan Greiner, Hermann de Meer, Kishor S. Trivedi. 1998. Queueing Networks and Markov Chains : Modeling and Performance Evaluation With Computer Science Applications. 744 pages. John Wiley & Sons; ISBN: 0471193666.
  19. Harold J. Kushner. 2001. Heavy Traffic Analysis of Controlled Queueing and Communications Networks. Springer. ISBN: 0387952640
  20. IEEE Standards for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks, 802.6c&H-1993: 1994, ANSI-IEEE Std. 802.6, 1994 Edition, Physical Layer Convergence Procedure (Plcp) for DSI-Based Systems (Clause 12) and Isochronous Service on a Distributed Queue Dual Bus. 40 pp. I E E E Standards Office. ISBN: 155937344X
  21. IEEE Standards for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks, 802.6j-1995: Supplements to ISO-IEC 8802-6:1994: Connection-Oriented Service on a Distributed Queue Dual Bus (Dqdb) Subnetwork of a Metropolitan Area Network (Man). 64 pp. I E E E Standards Office. ISBN: 1559375450.  Nico M. Van Dijk. 1993. Queueing Networks and Product Forms: A Systems Approach. 290pp. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN: 0471928488
  22. Jewgeni H. Dshalalow (Editor). 1995. Advances in Queuing : Theory, Methods, and Open Problems. 528 pages. CRC Press; ISBN: 084938074X.
  23. Jewgeni H. Dshalalow (Editor). 1997. Frontiers in Queueing : Models and Applications in Science and Engineering (Probability and Stochastics Series). 480 pp. CRC Press; ISBN: 0849380766.
  24. Kitaev, Mikhail and Vladimir Rykov. 1995. Controlled Queueing Systems. CRC Press. ISBN 0849328624.
  25. Kulkarni, Vidyadhar G. (1995). Modeling and Analysis of Stochastic Systems. Chapman & Hall, London.
  26. Kushner, Harold J. and G. George Yin. Stochastic Approximation Algorithms and Applications. Publisher: Springer-Verlag, New York, 1997
  27. L.P. Seelen, H.C. Tijms, M.H. Van Hoorn. 1985. Tables for Multi-Server Queues. Elsevier Science Ltd; ISBN: 0444877223
  28. Panico, J.A., Queueing Theory: A Study of Waiting Lines for Business, Economics and Science, Prentice-Hall, New Jersey (1969).
  29. Pierre Bremaud. 1999. Markov Chains : Gibbs Fields, Monte Carlo Simulation, and Queues. 480 pages. Springer Verlag; ISBN: 0387985093 (Texts in Applied Mathematics, 31).
  30. Raif O. Onvural, Ian F. Akyildiz (Editor). 1992. Queuing Networks With Finite Capacity : Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Queueing Networks With Finite Capacity, May 28-29, 1992. North-Holland; ISBN: 0444897720
  31. Reuven Y. Rubinstein. 1992. Monte Carlo Optimization, Simulation and Sensitivity of Queueing Networks. 260pp. Krieger Publishing. ISBN: 0894647644.
  32. Richard Conway, William Maxwell, and Louis Miller. 1967. Theory of Scheduling. Addison Wesley. 294 pp. ISBN 0-201-01189-1
  33. Saadawi, Tarek N., Mostafa H. Ammar, Ahmed El Hakeem. 1994. Fundamentals of Telecommunication Networks. 0-471-51582-5. Wiley Series in Telecommunications and Signal Processing
  34. Santosh S. Venkatesh. 1999. Data Networking: Theory and Fundamentals. Online book (including a section on queueing). Part of the book has audio available. For the queueing part of Data Networking: Theory and Fundamentals. For the audio portion of Data Networking: Theory and Fundamentals .
  35. Technical Council Committee. 1988. Management of Damaging Traffic Queues. Inst of Transportation Engineers; ISBN: 9992961384
  36. V.V. Kalashnikov and S.T. Rachev. 1990. Mathematical Methods for Construction of Queueing Models. Wadsworth and Brooks. 431 pp. ISBN 0-534-132545
  37. Vladimir Kalashnikov. 1994. Topics on Regenerative Processes. CRC Press. ISBN 0849386411.
  38. Wayne Amsbury. 1985. DATA STRUCTURES FROM ARRAYS TO PRIORITY QUEUES. 516 pp. Wadsworth Pub. Belmont, CA.
  39. William Stallings. High Speed Networks: TCP/IP and ATM Design Principles . 1998. Engineering/Science/Mathematics. 576 pp. ISBN: 0-13-525965-7.
  40. Winfried K. Grassmann (Editor). 1999. Computational Probability. 504 pages. Kluwer Academic Publishers; ISBN: 0792386175