Diagram showing a reliability model for a 4-way redundant system. (Image courtesy of NASA.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. David Gamarnik
Premal Shah
MIT Course Number
15.072J / 6.264J
As Taught In
Spring 2006
Level
Graduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This class deals with the modeling and analysis of queueing systems, with applications in communications, manufacturing, computers, call centers, service industries and transportation. Topics include birth-death processes and simple Markovian queues, networks of queues and product form networks, single and multi-server queues, multi-class queueing networks, fluid models, adversarial queueing networks, heavy-traffic theory and diffusion approximations. The course will cover state of the art results which lead to research opportunities.