QUEUEING THEORY BOOKS ON LINE


This site lists books (and course notes) with a major queueing component that are available for FREE online. If you know of any additional book or course notes on queueing theory that are available on line, please send an e-mail to the address below.
Contact: Myron Hlynka at hlynka@uwindsor.ca
Last update: May 21, 2010.
If you are interested in looking at a list of queueing books which are not available on line, but may (or may not) be available for purchase (not from me), go to
http://web2.uwindsor.ca/math/hlynka/qbook.html
  1. Introduction to Queueing Theory (2nd edition). Robert B. Cooper. 1981. 347 pp. This classic book is available on line through Robert Cooper's home page. The link to the book is:
    http://www.cse.fau.edu/~bob/publications/IntroToQueueingTheory_Cooper.pdf
    The solution manual (by Borge Tolt, 182 pages, 1981) is available online at
    http://www.cse.fau.edu/%7Ebob/publications/QueueingTheory_solns.pdf
    Finally, Bob Cooper's home page is
    http://www.cse.fau.edu/~bob/
  2. Queueing Theory. Ivo Adan and Jacques Resing. 2001. 180 pp.
    http://www.cs.duke.edu/~fishhai/misc/queue.pdf
  3. Queues: –A Course in Queueing Theor. Moshe Haviv. October 1, 2009. New and complete.
    http://pluto.huji.ac.il/~haviv/book31.pdf
  4. Queueing Course, from Finland. Complete lecture notes, by J. Virtamo. 2005. Over 250 pages altogether.
    http://www.netlab.hut.fi/opetus/s383143/kalvot/english.shtml
    There is another course with more applied and advanced topics in Teletraffic Theory. Powerpoint notes (2005) can be found at
    http://www.netlab.tkk.fi/opetus/s38145/k05/lectures.shtml
    Lectures by Samuli Aalto, Aleksi Penttinen.
  5. Introduction to Queueing Theory and Stochastic Teletraffic Models, by Moshe Zukerman. 2008. 165 pp.
    http://www.ee.cityu.edu.hk/~zukerman/classnotes.pdf
  6. Stationary Queueing Models with Aspects of Customer Impatience and Retrial Behaviour. Christian Dombacher. Revised. 2009 (18.01.2009)
    http://www.telecomm.at/documents/Stationary_QM.pdf
    A related German language queueing book, Warteschlangen, is available at
    http://www.telecomm.at/documents/Warteschlangen.pdf
  7. Queueing Networks (classnotes) by Muhammad El-Taha (U. of Southern Maine). August 8, 2007
    http://www.usm.maine.edu/~eltaha/root_queue_07.pdf
  8. Mor Harchol-Balter. Class notes. 2009. 15-857 Carnegie Mellon University. Good graduate course.
    http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~harchol/Perfclass/NotesFall09/notes.html
  9. Sanjay BOSE. 2000. An Introduction to Queueing Systems. Some sections of the book are presented completely. The book is summarized in the slides portion of the web site for the text. Further, there is a complete set of solutions for the problems in the text and there is a set of tests to accompany the material. Even more, there are 72 pages of "additional queueing related material" which give analyses of particular queueing models. Definitely check out this site. Better yet, buy the book.
    http://home.iitk.ac.in/~skb/ee679/ee679.html
  10. OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCE HANDBOOK. Editor: A. Ravi Ravindran. September 29, 2006
    Chapter 9. by N. Gautam.
    http://ie.tamu.edu/people/faculty/Gautam/papers/queues_NG.pdf
  11. A Short Introduction to Queueing Theory, by Andreas WILLIG. 1999. 41 pp.
    http://www.tkn.tu-berlin.de/curricula/ws0203/ue-kn/qt.pdf
  12. TELETRAFFIC ENGINEERING HANDBOOK: ITC in cooperation with ITU-D SG2, by Villy Baek Iversen, COM Center, Technical University of Denmark. January, 2005.
    This book is mainly about queueing theory. 336 pp.
    http://www.tele.dtu.dk/teletraffic/handbook/telehook.pdf
  13. Queueing Course. Lecture Notes, by Karl Sigman. Columbia University, New York, 2001.
    http://www.columbia.edu/~ks20/6704-04/6704-04.html
  14. Introduction to Markov Chains and Queueing Theory, by Fabrice Valois. Lecture Notes. (in French) 2006.
    1. Part 1
    2. Part 2
    3. Part 3
    4. Part 4
    5. Part 5
  15. Keith Ross. Multiservice Loss Models for Broadband Communication Networks, Springer, 1995.
    http://cis.poly.edu/~ross/LossNetworks/LossNetworks.htm
  16. E. Altman, B. Gaujal and A. Hordijk , Discrete-event control of stochastic networks: Multimodularity and Regularity (Copyrights: Springer Verlag) Springer Verlag, Series: Lecture Notes in Mathematics 2003, XIV, 313 p., Softcover ISBN: 3-540-20358-3. It is available on line at
    http://www-sop.inria.fr/maestro/personnel/Eitan.Altman/PAPERS/bookmm.pdf
  17. Richard Larson and Amadeo Odoni. 1981. Urban Operations Research. Prentice Hall. Chapter 4 is an introduction to queueing theory and chapter 5 is a discussion of spatial queues. The book can be viewed on line at
    http://web.mit.edu/urban_or_book/www/book/
  18. Richard Larsen, Amadeo Odoni, Arnold Barnett. Slides for course 1.203J at MIT
    http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Civil-and-Environmental-Engineering/1-203JFall-2004/LectureNotes/
  19. Reversibility and Stochastic Networks, by F. P. Kelly. 1979. A classic text. 235 pp.
    http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~frank/BOOKS/kelly_book.html
  20. Computer Simulation Techniques: The definitive introduction! by Harry Perros, Computer Science Department, NC State University Raleigh, NC. 2003. 131 pp. This is not a queueing book, but since it is written by a queueing expert, the examples are mainly taken from queueing theory and the material is what a queueing theorist might often be looking for.
    http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/perros//simulation.pdf
  21. Course Notes for "Stochastic Models for Design and Planning" by Ivo Adan. 2003.
    http://www.win.tue.nl/~iadan/sdp/
  22. Queueing Theory.
    1. General Queueing Theory (by Andrew Ferrier)
    2. Network Queueing Theory (by Robert Kay)
    3. Applications of Queueing Theory (by Henry Morgan)
    http://www.new-destiny.co.uk/andrew/past_work/queueing_theory/
  23. Janos Sztrik. 2001. Finite-Source Queueing Systems and their Applications.
    http://irh.inf.unideb.hu/user/jsztrik/education/Slides/fsqs.pdf
  24. Janos Strzik. 2004. Queueing Formulas with Java applets.
    http://irh.inf.unideb.hu/user/jsztrik/education/09/english/index.html
  25. Queuing Analysis, by William Stallings. 2000. (A Practical Guide for Computer Scientists)
    http://www.electronicsteacher.com/download/queuing-analysis.pdf
  26. The M/G/1 Queue, by Bart Sinclair. There are numerous short expository articles on queueing and Markov processes at the site. In the upper right hand corner, search on "sinclair" to see what is available. This site is part of a collection of on line information called CONNEXIONS.
    http://cnx.rice.edu/content/m10819/latest/
  27. Applied Probability in Operations Research: A Retrospective, by Shaler Stidham Jr. (An article on the history of queueing theory).
    http://www.or.unc.edu/~sandy/papers/musing08.pdf
  28. Service Engineering (096324) Lecture Notes by Avi Mandelbaum, taught at Technion University, Israel. 2009.
    http://iew3.technion.ac.il/serveng/
  29. Traffic Theory and Queueing Systems. Lecture notes, by Henrik Schiøler.
    1. http://www.control.auc.dk/~henrik/undervisning/trafik/oversigt.html
    2. http://www.control.auc.dk/~henrik/undervisning/trafik2/oversigt.html
  30. MIT. Open Courseware for Logistical and Transportation Planning Methods, Fall 2004. By Arnold Barnett, Richard Larson, Amedeo Odoni.
    http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Civil-and-Environmental-Engineering/1-203JFall-2004/LectureNotes/
  31. Single Queueing Systems. 2001. 47 pp. This is an abbreviated version of the Adan and Resing book above.
    http://mathstat.carleton.ca/~zhao/teaching/70.590H/single-q.pdf
  32. Internet Supplement (300 pages) to the book Stochastic-Process Limits (An Introduction to Stochastic-Process Limits And their Application to Queues), by Ward Whitt, published by Springer in 2002 (602 pages). Chapters 5 and 8 of the Supplement are on queueing.
    http://www.columbia.edu/~ww2040/supplement.html
  33. Stability of Fluid and Stochastic Processing Networks by: J. G. "Jim" Dai, 1999. 76 pp.
    http://www.maphysto.dk/cgi-bin/w3-msql/publications/genericpublication.html?publ=70
  34. Slides for course Advanced Modelling: Queueing Models, by R.B. Lenin, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information & Communication Technology, 2007.
    http://220.225.53.37/~lenin/winter07_advmodel.html
  35. Slides of lectures in a queueing course by John Lui (Hong Kong). This includes some interesting topics - such as matrix geometric methods.
    http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~cslui/csc5420_lecture.html
  36. Queueing Notes, by Prapun Suksompong
    http://members.tripod.com/~psdin/commnet/queue.pdf
  37. Queueing Theory Lectures 1-5. Sandy Rutherford. 2006
    http://osler.irmacs.sfu.ca/topics/2-queueing/index.html
  38. Network Calculus: A Theory of Deterministic Queuing Systems for the Internet. by Jean-Yves Le Boudec and Patrick Thiran. Springer Verlag, 2002.
    http://ica1www.epfl.ch/PS_files/NetCal.htm#_What_is_Network
  39. Tony Vignaux's Queueing Notes. 2000. Includes M/M/1, priority, and numerical solution of queueing systems.
    http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/~vignaux/subjects.html
  40. Janos Sztrik. 2000. These are lecture notes on queueing in Hungarian.
    http://irh.inf.unideb.hu/user/jsztrik/education/eNotes.htm
  41. Modeling information systems and telecommunications, by Eitan Altman. (This is mainly on queueing.) Lecture notes in Spanish. 2002. 81 pp. Available at
    http://www-sop.inria.fr/mistral/personnel/Eitan.Altman/course.pdf
  42. "NS simulator course for beginners". Lecture Notes by Eitan Altman. 2002. 146 pp. Available at
    http://www-sop.inria.fr/mistral/personnel/Eitan.Altman/ns.htm
  43. Networking and Queueing Course at the University of Pennsylvania, by Yannis Korilis, 2003.
    http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~tcom501/
  44. Queueing Notes for USC Course EE549. Spring, 2005. Notes by Michael Neely. 31 pp.
    http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~mjneely/ee549notes/
  45. OR-Notes by J E Beasley. 2000?
    OR-Notes are a series of introductory notes on topics that fall under the broad heading of the field of operations research (OR).
    OR-Notes are available from http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~mastjjb/jeb/or/contents.html
    Topics include queueing theory.
  46. TutORial on Operations Research. Includes some computational tools in the simulation module on queueing section. 2000. By Jaroslav Sklenar.
    www.ifors.org/tutorial/
  47. Slides for course Discrete Simulation and Modelling (IT516) by R.B. Lenin, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information & Communication Technology. 2006.
    http://220.225.53.37/~lenin/autumn06_simulation.html
  48. An article " Steady State Simulation of Queueing Processes: A Survey of Problems and Solutions" by K. Pawlikowski, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
    http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/%7Ekrys/publications/acm.surveys.pdf
  49. Queueing Petri Nets: A Formalism for the Combined Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Systems. By Falko Bause, Informatik IV, Universitat Dortmund, 44221 Dortmund, Germany
    This is an article/slide presentation.
    http://ls4-www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de/QPN/QPN_article/qpn_final/qpn_final.html
  50. "Queueing for Dummies" by David Kalinsky. An introductory article for software engineers.
    http://www.embedded.com/story/OEG20010312S0101
  51. Slides and Notes for course ECE/CS 5566, Network Architecture and Protocols II, at Virginia Tech University, by Scott F. Midkiff. Mainly queueing theory. 2003.
    http://fiddle.visc.vt.edu/courses/ece5566/lectures.html
  52. Queueing Theory Formulae (in Dutch).
    http://htsa.ie.hva.nl/~reneteun/formules.htm







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