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Diagram showing a reliability model for a 4-way redundant system. (Image courtesy of NASA.)
Prof. David Gamarnik
Premal Shah
15.072J / 6.264J
Spring 2006
Graduate
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.
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