Chapter 7 discusses about queues and its variants such as circular queues and doubly
ended queues. The static, dynamic representation and operations of all the types of
queues are explained and exemplified. Various applications of the queues are listed, and
one of the applications called Simulation of Time-Sharing System is explained in detail.
7.1 INTRODUCTION
Queue is a linear data structure in which insertions are made at one end called rear,and deletions are made
at the other end called front. A queue is also known as a structure that models the rst-come rst-serve order
or equivalently the rst-in rst-out ( FIFO) order.
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