3 Chapter: Construction of Simple Continuous-time Stochastic Processes

In Section 3.1 we develop recursions to construct queueing processes in continuous time. This shows that a queueing system can be characterized by a few elements; Section 3.2 introduces useful notation for this purpose. Section 3.3 shows how to implement these recursions and visualize the results. The resulting models remain simple and do not capture more complex systems such as multi-server queues with heterogeneous service rates.