This book is devoted to a comprehensive treatment of this important field, a grand challenge for future networking research. It covers results from the authors as well as other researchers. Topics covered include Independent Case Analysis and its applications.
From the reviews:
"This book presents an overall picture of the state of the art of stochastic service guarantee analysis and a comprehensive treatment of this active research area. ... One of its big successes is a good balance between mathematical rigor and practical discussions and guidelines. ... the book is easy to read, making it appropriate for an undergraduate or graduate course on the subject. Researchers in the areas of performance evaluation of computer networks ... will benefit from the comprehensive discussion of stochastic service guarantee issues." (P. R. Parthasarathy, ACM Computing Reviews, June, 2009)