TY - BOOK AU - Bramson,Maury ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Stability of Queueing Networks: École d'Été de Probabilités de Saint-Flour XXXVI - 2006 T2 - Lecture Notes in Mathematics, SN - 9783540688969 AV - QA273.A1-274.9 U1 - 519.2 23 PY - 2008/// CY - Berlin, Heidelberg PB - Springer Berlin Heidelberg KW - Mathematics KW - Computer network architectures KW - Operations research KW - Distribution (Probability theory) KW - Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes KW - Operations Research, Mathematical Programming KW - Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks N1 - The Classical Networks -- Instability of Subcritical Queueing Networks -- Stability of Queueing Networks -- Applications and Some Further Theory N2 - Queueing networks constitute a large family of stochastic models, involving jobs that enter a network, compete for service, and eventually leave the network upon completion of service. Since the early 1990s, substantial attention has been devoted to the question of when such networks are stable. This volume presents a summary of such work. Emphasis is placed on the use of fluid models in showing stability, and on examples of queueing networks that are unstable even when the arrival rate is less than the service rate. The material of this volume is based on a series of nine lectures given at the Saint-Flour Probability Summer School 2006. Lectures were also given by Alice Guionnet and Steffen Lauritzen UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68896-9 ER -