This book introduces the complex queueing theory in simple language/proofs to enable the reader to quickly pick up an overview to queueing theory without utilizing the diverse necessary mathematical tools.

... applications, are obtained as well. We illustrate the results through simulation under a variety system configuration and system load. Acknowledgements. The study was carried out under state order ... statistics from Weibull ...

... order to find an optimal pattern for each time interval, it is a need to determine these two metrics as functions of number of active nodes in the system. The certain ... queueing 56 Scheduling Problems - New Applications and Trends.

... ordering of the attained waiting times in single - server queues and related problems . J. of Applied Probability 28 , 433– 445 . QUE • MOFFITT , L.J. , TANIGOSHI , L.K. , and BARITELLE , J.L. ( 1983 ) . Incorporating risk in ...

... scheduling approach with an approach that uses a single queue for scheduling . In particular , the LLS ap- proach ... order , there is no problem of context switching . Dropped Data Units : The percentage of dropped data units as ...

Containing exercises and examples, this volume may be used as a textbook by first-year graduate and upper-level undergraduate students. The work may also be useful as a self-study reference for applications and further research.

... Scheduling algorithm in traditional computing paradigms barely consider the data transfer problem during mapping computational tasks, and this negli- gence would be costly in the case of distributed data-intensive applications [3] ...