This updated and revised edition of the popular classic relates fundamental concepts in probability and statistics to the computer sciences and engineering. The author uses Markov chains and other statistical tools to illustrate processes in reliability of computer systems and networks, fault tolerance, and performance. This edition features an entirely new section on stochastic Petri nets-as well as new sections on system availability modeling, wireless system modeling, numerical solution techniques for Markov chains, and software reliability modeling, among other subjects. Extensive revisions take new developments in solution techniques and applications into account and bring this work totally up to date. It includes more than 200 worked examples and self-study exercises for each section. Probability and Statistics with Reliability, Queuing and Computer Science Applications, Second Edition offers a comprehensive introduction to probability, stochastic processes, and statistics for students of computer science, electrical and computer engineering, and applied mathematics. Its wealth of practical examples and up-to-date information makes it an excellent resource for practitioners as well. An Instructor's Manual presenting detailed solutions to all the problems in the book is available from the Wiley editorial department.
ISBN: 9781119285427
Note that the thoroughly revised second edition is published
by John Wiley & Sons (the original first edition was published by Prentice-Hall). The book is popularly referred to as the "blue book", in its most recent avatar has a blue cover again and it is a cheaper paperback with most of the remaining errors removed.
Second Edition:
In the second edition, all the chapters have been thoroughly revised. Many examples and problems are updated, and many new examples and problems have been added. Many of these examples are based on the author's experience working with industry on real-world problems. There is a considerable addition of examples on system availability modeling, wireless system performance and availability modeling, software reliability modeling, and system performability modeling. New material on fault trees and stochastic Petri nets, and numerical solution techniques for Markov chains have been added. Detection of software aging is included as well as statistical estimation of availability is added.
A section on the computation of response time distribution for Markovian queuing networks has also been added. Chapter 8, on continuous-time Markov chains, has undergone the most change. Research experience and the application of these methods for last 25 years have been distilled in these chapters as much as possible.
The book will be of use as a classroom textbook as well as of use for practicing engineers. Researchers will also find valuable material here.
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Trivedi, K. S. Probability and Statistics with Reliability, Queuing and Computer Science Applications, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119285441.