brief review: Queueing Analysis: A Foundation of Performance Evaluation. Volume 1: Vacation and Priority Systems, Part 1 by H. Takagi (North-Holland, 1991)

This is a collection of articles, written especially for this publication, designed to show the rich variety of stochastic models applicable to studying the performance of computer and communications systems. There are a total of twenty articles, divided into four sections. The first section, Stochastic Processes, includes articles using general presenting stochastic process models applied to computer and communications system modeling. The second section, Queues, presents queueing theoretic models which are applicable to performance modeling, although these articles concentrate on the queueing models themselves. The final two sections, Computer Systems and Communication Systems, present applications of analytic modeling to these kinds of systems. The final article is an extensive bibliography compiled by Dr. Takagi of works on performance evaluation. These are separate sections for books, special issues of journals, conference proceedings, and survey and tutorial articles.