Approximation Algorithms for Product-Form Networks In Chapter 8, several efficient algorithms for the exact solution of queueing networks are introduced. However, the memory requirements and computation time of these algorithms grows exponentially with the number of job classes in the system. For computationally difficult problems of networks with a large number of job classes, we resort to approximation methods. In Sections 9.1, 9.2, and 9.3 we introduce methods for obtaining such approximate r