Network Quality of Service (QoS) criteria of interest include conventional metrics such as throughput, delay, loss, and jitter, as well as new QoS criteria based on power utilization, reliability and security. Variable and adaptive routing have again become of interest in networking because of...

G-networks are novel product form queuing networks that, in addition to ordinary customers, contain unusual entities such as “negative customers” which eliminate normal customers, and “triggers” that move other customers from some queue to another. Recently we introduced one more special...