Queueing Theory Courses and Certifications

Queuing Theory: from Markov Chains to Multi-Server Systems

13 ratings

Learn key mathematical tools necessary to anticipate the performance levels of queueing systems and understand the behavior of other systems that evolve randomly over time.

• edX
• 5 weeks, 3-4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Art of Queueing Model for Services Design Optimization

Learn how queueing models explain waiting lines and help organizations design faster, smarter, and more efficient service systems.

• OpenLearning
• 21-22 hours
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Mathemaniac

Queuing Theory and Poisson Process

Introduction to M/M/1 queue model and Poisson process, covering fundamental concepts of queuing theory. Explores key principles and applications in simple queuing systems.

• YouTube
• 25 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

NPTEL-NOC IITM

M/G/1 Queue - Expected Busy Period, Waiting Time, and PASTA - Lecture 37

Explore M/G/1 queues, analyzing busy periods, waiting times, PASTA principle, and Little's theorem for enhanced understanding of queueing systems.

• YouTube
• 39 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

USENIX

System Performance and Queuing Theory - Concepts and Application

Explore queueing theory basics and its application to software systems. Learn to configure systems, predict performance, and identify breaking points using real-world data and metrics.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Confreaks

The Queue Continuum: Applied Queuing Theory - RailsConf 2022

Explore queuing theory, parallelism, and concurrency in Rails applications through Star Trek-themed examples, focusing on Sidekiq and Puma optimization.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

NPTEL-NOC IITM

Time Sampled M/M/1 Queue and Burke's Theorem - Lecture 66

Explore Burke's Theorem and M/M/1 Queue concepts, including reversibility and time sampling, to enhance understanding of queueing theory.

• YouTube
• 17 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Nantong University

通信网理论基础

围绕马尔可夫与非马尔可夫排队模型，学习 G/G/1 近似解和优先级调度，以建模分析通信系统性能。

• XuetangX
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

EDUCBA

Operational Research for Decision Optimization

12 ratings at Coursera

Solve business problems with operational research: apply the Hungarian Method, Vogel's Approximation and MODI, CPM and PERT, decision trees, and queuing models.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Capacity and demand management

7 ratings at OpenLearn

This free course, Capacity and demand management, is part of the series focusing on leadership, decision-making and communication in the context of policing within the community. This course ...

• OpenLearn
• 5 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

IIT Roorkee;  NPTEL

Operations Research

A mathematical toolkit for optimizing decisions across transportation, inventory, queues, networks, games, and constrained programming.

• Swayam
• 8 weeks
• Available until Oct 31, 2026
• Free Online Course

Devoxx

Designing for Performance

Explore high-performance software design, focusing on response times, throughput, and scalability. Learn about modern hardware, abstraction layers, and practical techniques for optimizing system performance.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Strange Loop Conference

Stop Rate Limiting - Capacity Management Done Right

Learn why API rate limiting can fail and how concurrency control, queueing theory, and adaptive capacity management protect services.

• YouTube
• 42 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Strange Loop Conference

A Frontend Server, Front to Back

Explore the low-level engineering tradeoffs behind Fitbit’s fast, stable, scalable frontend server, from request state machines and Netty to queueing and load balancing.

• YouTube
• 47 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

IIT Guwahati;  NPTEL

Introduction To Queueing Theory

Learn to model and analyze waiting-line systems using stochastic processes, from single-server queues to Jackson networks and general-service models.

• Swayam
• 12 weeks
• No Longer Offered
• Free Online Course