Stochastic Network Calculus

From the reviews:

"This book presents an overall picture of the state of the art of stochastic service guarantee analysis and a comprehensive treatment of this active research area. … One of its big successes is a good balance between mathematical rigor and practical discussions and guidelines. … the book is easy to read, making it appropriate for an undergraduate or graduate course on the subject. Researchers in the areas of performance evaluation of computer networks … will benefit from the comprehensive discussion of stochastic service guarantee issues." (P. R. Parthasarathy, ACM Computing Reviews, June, 2009)