IE 625 Queueing Theory

Credit Information: 
(3+0+0) 3
Description: 
Characterization of queuing systems; birth and death processes; single server queues; transient and equilibrium behavior; busy period; multiserver queues; batch service queues; non-Markovian queues; embedded Markov chains; bounds, inequalities and approximations; optimal control of queues; queuing networks.
Prerequisite: 
IE 505 or instructor's consent.