Advances in Queueing Theory and Network Applications presents several useful mathematical analyses in queueing theory and mathematical models of key technologies in wired and wireless communication networks such as channel access controls, Internet applications, topology construction, energy saving schemes, and transmission scheduling. In sixteen high-quality chapters, this work provides novel ideas, new analytical models, and simulation and experimental results by experts in the field of queueing theory and network applications.

"Advances in Queueing Theory and Network Applications presents several useful mathematical analyses in queueing theory and mathematical models of key technologies in wired and wireless communication networks such as channel access controls, Internet applications, topology construction, energy saving schemes, and transmission scheduling. In sixteen high quality chapters, this work provides novel ideas, new analytical models, and simulation and experimental results by experts in the field of queueing theory and network applications.The text serves as a state-of-the-art reference for a wide range of researchers and engineers engaged in the fields of queueing theory and network applications, and can also serve as supplemental material for advanced courses in operations research, queueing theory, performance analysis, traffic theory, as well as theoretical design and management of communication networks."

Queueing Processes.- Two Sided DQBD Process and Solutions to the Tail Decay Rate Problem and Their Applications to the Generalized Join Shortest Queue.- Analytical Model of On-Demand Streaming Services Based on Renewal Reward Theory.- Single-Server Queues.- A Pure Decrement Service Geom/G/1 Queue with Multiple Adaptive Vacations.- Performance Analysis of an M/M/1 Working Vacation Queue with Setup Times.- Modeling of Production System with Nonrenewal Batch Input, Early Setup, and Extra Jobs.- Performance Analysis of an M/E k /1 Queue with Balking and Two Service Rates Based on a Single Vacation Policy.- Multiple Queues.- Markovian Polling Systems: Functional Computation for Mean Waiting Times and its Computational Complexity.- Performance Analysis of a Two-Station MTO/MTS Production System.- Finite-Buffer Queues.- Analysis of an M/M/c/N Queueing System with Balking, Reneging, and Synchronous Vacations.- Analysis of Mixed Loss-Delay M/M/m/K Queueing Systems with State-Dependent Arrival Rates.- Asymptotic Behavior of Loss Rate for Feedback Finite Fluid Queue with Downward Jumps.- Explicit Probability Density Function for the Length of a Busy Period in an M/M/1/K Queue.- Network Applications.- Performance Analysis of ARQ Schemes in Self-Similar Traffic.- Modeling of P2P File Sharing with a Level-Dependent QBD Process.- Performance Analysis of a Decentralized Content Delivery System with FEC Recovery.- Blocking Probabilities of Multiple Classes in IP Networks with QoS Routing.