Course Material

The course will be based on these lecture notes:

Queueing theory by Prof. Jorma Virtamo, Helsinki University of Technology (used with kind permission)

Link to Prof. Jorma Virtamo´s page

Basic Elements of Queueing Theory: Applications to the Modelling of Computer systems (excerpts) by Dr. Philippe Nain, INRIA (used with kind permission)

Link to Dr. Philippe Nain´s page

With supplementary material:

  • Problem set with solutions
  • Old exam problems with solutions
  • Erlang tables
  • Formula sheet

The course compendium is sold at the student reception (STEX, Osquldas väg 10) for 100SEK.

STEX

Useful tools

Formula sheet (pdf 86 kB)

Erlang tables (pdf 229 kB)

A Swedish-English glossary of queueing theory terms (pdf 19 kB)

Erlang and Engset calculators

Queuing model Java applet, by Esa Hyytiä

Practical Queueing Theory in Java, by János Sztrik

Other queuing theory resources

ITC and ITU-D SG2 Teletraffic Engineering Handbook by Villy Bæk Iversen.

ITC

ITU-D

Teletraffic Engineering Handbook

The Life and Works of A.K. Erlang by E. Brockmeyer, H.L. Halstrøm and Arne Jensen
Transactions of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences, 1948, No. 2.

The Life and Works of A.K. Erlang

Reversibility and Stochastic Networks by F. P. Kelly.

Quantitative System Performance: Computer System Analysis Using Queueing Network Models

Miscellanea

Wright's Axioms of Queueing

RFC 1121 (Postel, Kleinrock, Cerf & Boehm)