What this is, and what it is not; Large deviations of random variables; General principles; Random walks, branching processes; Poisson and related processes; Large deviation for processes; Freidlin-Wentzell theory; Boundary theory; Allocating independent subtasks; Parallel algorithms: rollback; Accelerated simulation; the M/M/1 queue; The Flatto-Hahn-Wright model; Erlang's model; The Anick-Mitra-Sondhi model; ALOHA; Priority queues; Flatto's models; Analysis and Probability; Discrete-space markov processes; Calculus of variations; Large deviations techniques.
"This book is a successful attempt to apply a sophisticated new mathematic technique, the theory of large deviations, to a broad class of problems in performance analysis of large systems." --Zentralblatt
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