This accessible book aims to collect in a single volume the essentials of stochastic networks. Stochastic networks have become widely used as a basic model of many physical systems in a diverse range of fields. Written by leading authors in the field, this book is meant to be used as a reference or supplementary reading by practitioners in operations research, computer systems, communications networks, production planning, and logistics.

Preface * 1 Birth-Death Queues * 2 Jackson Networks * 3 Stochastic Comparisons * 4 Kelly Networks * 5 Technical Desiderata * 6 Single-Station Queues * 7 Generalized Jackson Networks * 8 A Two-Station Multi-Class Network * 9 Feedforward Networks * 10 Brownian Approximations * 11 Conservation Laws * 12 Scheduling of Fluid Networks * Index