Sean Meyn,伊利诺斯大学电子与计算机工程系教授,IEEE Fellow。担任系统与控制、应用概率等领域多个期刊的编委。与他人合著的图书Markov Chains and Stochastic Stability获1994年ORSA/TIMS最佳著作奖。在MIT4 UTRC等世界各地多个大学担任客座教授。他的研究兴趣包括随
【目录】
List of Illustrations
Preface
Dedication
1 Introduction
1.1 Networks in practice
1.2 Mathematical models
1.3 What do you need to know to read this book?
1.4 Notes
Part I: Modeling and Control
2 Examples
2.1 Modeling the single server queue
2.2 Klimov model
2.3 Capacity and queueing in communication systems
2.4 Multiple-access communication
2.5 Processor sharing model
2.6 Inventory model
2.7 Power transmission network
2.8 Optimization in a simple re-entrant line
2.9 Contention for resources and instability
2.10 Routing model
2.11 Braess' paradox
2.12 Notes
3 The Single Server Queue
3.1 Representations
3.2 Approximations
3.3 Stability
3.4 Invariance equations
3.5 Big queues
3.6 Model selection
3.7 Notes
Exercises
4 Scheduling
4.1 Controlled random-walk model
4.2 Fluid model
4.3 Control techniques for the fluid model
4.4 Comparing fluid and stochastic models
4.5 Structure of optimal policies
4.6 Safety-stocks
4.7 Discrete review
4.8 MaxWeight and MinDrift
4.9 Perturbed value function
4.10 Notes
Exercises~
Part II: Workload
5 Workload and Scheduling
5.1 Single server queue
5.2 Workload for the CRW scheduling model
5.3 Relaxations for the fluid model
5.4 Stochastic workload models
5.5 Pathwise optimality and workload
5.6 Hedging in networks
5.7 Notes
Exercises
6 Routing and Resource Pooling
6.1 Workload in general models
6.2 Resource pooling
6.3 Routing and workload
6.4 MaxWeight for routing and scheduling
6.5 Simultaneous resource possession
6.6 Workload relaxations
6.7 Relaxations and policy synthesis for stochastic models
6.8 Notes
Exercises
7 Demand
7.1 Network models
7.2 Transients
7.3 Workload relaxations
7.4 Hedging in a simple inventory model
7.5 Hedging in networks
7.6 Summary of steady-state control techniques
7.7 Notes
Exercises
Part III: Stability and Performance
8 Foster-Lyapunov Techniques
8.1 Lyapunov functions
8.2 Lyapunov functions for networks
8.3 Discrete review
8.4 MaxWeight
8.5 MaxWeight and the average-cost optimality equation
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