The Queueing Network Analyzer

@article{Whitt1983TheQN,
  title={The Queueing Network Analyzer},
  author={Ward Whitt},
  journal={The Bell System Technical Journal},
  year={1983},
  volume={62},
  pages={2779-2815}
}

• Ward Whitt
• Published 1983 in The Bell System Technical Journal

This paper describes the Queueing Network Analyzer (QNA), a software package developed at Bell Laboratories to calculate approximate congestion measures for a network of queues. The first version of QNA analyzes open networks of multiserver nodes with the first-come, first-served discipline and no capacity constraints. An important feature is that the external arrival processes need not be Poisson and the service-time distributions need not be exponential. Treating other kinds of variability is… CONTINUE READING

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