Comments on: Queueing models for the analysis of communication systems

The paper under discussion is a well-written exposition on the performance modeling of communication systems by discrete-time queueing systems, and their analysis. It basically consists of two parts: a review of the literature, focusing on the modelling of information streams and on scheduling disciplines (Sects. 2, 3), and a demonstration of some key methods for the analysis of discrete-time queueing systems, focusing on a particular two-class discrete-time queue with correlated arrivals and two priority classes (Sects. 4–6). In Sect. 1 of the present note, we make some introductory comments. In Sect. 2, realizing that the literature review in Bruneel et al. (TOP, <CitationRef CitationID="CR5">2014</CitationRef>) is authoritative and extensive, we focus on a few adjacent topics which fall outside the scope of Bruneel et al. (TOP, <CitationRef CitationID="CR5">2014</CitationRef>) but which in our view may also be of some interest. Finally, in Sect. 3, we discuss the analysis in Sects. 4–6 of Bruneel et al. (TOP, <CitationRef CitationID="CR5">2014</CitationRef>). Copyright Sociedad de Estadística e Investigación Operativa 2014