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Queues: Theory and Applications

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States15.072J
Free, no sign-up neededSpring 2006English
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This class deals with the modeling and analysis of queueing systems, with applications in communications, manufacturing, computers, call centers, service industries and transportation. Topics include birth-death processes and simple Markovian queues, networks of queues and product form networks, single and multi-server queues, multi-class queueing networks, fluid models, adversarial queueing networks, heavy-traffic theory and diffusion approximations.

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