Malware Diffusion Models for Modern Complex Networks

B.6. Queuing Networks

Networks of queues emerge oftentimes when the resources of interest are shared by a set of customers, or whenever multiple or hierarchical processing stages exist. Typically in these cases, customers enter the system, join the queue of a service stage and once served, they proceed with another stage in the system, until they complete service, and leave the system. Characteristic examples include public services, where a citizen might need to move from one queue to another to complete service, traffic highways, communications networks, etc. In these examples, the various service stages correspond to different queues-servers that the customers need to go through potentially in arbitrary order in the most general case. For example, ...