Brief review: Performance Instrumentation & Visualization by Margaret Simmons and Rebecca Koskela (Addison-Wesley & ACM Press, 1989)
David Finkel · ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review · 1991
This book presents a thorough discussion of exact algorithms for product-form queueing networks. The authors discuss the well-known Convolution Algorithm, and Mean Value Analysis (MVA), as well as some more recent algorithms: Recursion by Chain (RECAL), Mean Value Analysis by Chain (MVAC), and the Distribution Analysis by Chain (DAC).