Van Mieghem, Piet.

Performance analysis of communications networks and systems / Piet Van Mieghem. - Cambridge : Cambridge University, 2006. - xii, 530 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Random variables -- Basic distributions -- Correlation -- Inequalities -- Limit laws -- The Poisson process -- Renewal theory -- Discrete-time Markov chains -- Continuous-time Markov chains -- Applications of Markov chains -- Branching processes -- General queueing theory -- Queueing models -- General characteristics of graphs -- The shortest path problem -- The efficiency of multicast -- The hopcount to an anycast group -- Appendix A : Stochastic matrices -- Appendix B : Algebraic graph theory -- Appendix C : Solutions of problems.

9780521855150 (hbk.) 0521855152 (hbk.)

2006296976


Computer networks.
Stochastic analysis.

TK5105.5 / .V355 2006 QA76.9.E94 / V36 2006

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