Course QUE: Queueing Theory
Fall 2003

Meetings:	Monday 10:00-12:15
	Room 107A of the Buys Ballot Lab in the Uithof
Instructor:	Ivo Adan
	office:	HG 9.07 at Eindhoven University of Technology
	telephone:	(040) 247 29 32
	e-mail:	iadan@win.tue.nl
Office Hours:	when I am in
Examination:	Take home assignments

Assignments: (due February 1, 2004)

#1 Subcontracting

#2 Two phase production

#3 Unreliable machines (updated 13-11-03: data part (iv) modified)

#4 Waiting time analysis of a U/PH/1 system

#5 Loading of containers

#6 Priorities

Solutions:

#1 Subcontracting

#2 Two phase production

#3 Unreliable machines

#4 Waiting time analysis of a U/PH/1 system

#5 Loading of containers

#6 Priorities

Course outline from week to week

1. Basic concepts from probability theory
   Queueing models and some fundamental relations
   Markov chains and Markov processes
   The M/M/1 system
2. Examples of M/M/1 type models (updated 07-11-03)
3. M/M/1 type models (updated 12-11-03)
   G/M/1 type models (updated 12-11-03)
4. G/M/1 type models with linear rates (updated 12-11-03)
   The M/G/1 system (updated 17-11-03)
5. Variations of the M/G/1 model (updated 18-11-03)
   The M/G/1 system with priorities (updated 18-11-03)
6. M/G/1 type models

References