This book is devoted to the generalization and systematization of the models and methods to study the cyclic polling systems and their application to design and optimize the broadband wireless networks. New polling models adequately describing the performance of the broadband wireless Wi-Fi and Wi-MAX networks with PCF are presented. We provide the definition and classification of polling systems. Much attention is given to methods for analysis and optimization of the polling systems. In addition to classical polling models, we consider the reservation schemes to poll the queues, models...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Distributed Computer and Communication Networks, DCCN 2013, held in Moscow, Russia, in October 2013.
The 22 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions.
The papers cover the following subjects: computer and communication networks architecture optimization; control in computer and communication networks; performance and QoS evaluation in wireless networks; modeling and simulation of network protocols; queueing theory; wireless IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.15,...