TY - BOOK AU - Wolff, Ronald W. TI - Stochastic modeling and the theory of queues SN - 138466920 AV - QA 274.6 .W65 1989 PY - 1989/// CY - New Jersey PB - Prentice-Hall, KW - STOCHASTIC -- MATHEMATICS N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Probability theory -- 2. Renewal theory and regenerative processes -- 3. Discrete markov chains -- 4. Continuous-time markov chains -- 5. Introduction to queueing theory -- 6. Reversibility and queueing networks -- 7. Overflows and retrials -- 8. The M/G/1 and GI/M/c queues -- 9. Random walks and the Gi/G1 queue -- 10. Work conservation and priority queues -- 11. Bounds and approximations N2 - The purpose of this textbook is the time-average approach was simplified. A basic idea was to envisage processes evolving over time, either by drawing pictures, or observing real processes that we were modeling ER -