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The classical queueing theory does not consider queues with a structured space in which users are served. The present book is intended to fill this gap and to introduce the extension of multi-class users or queueing networks under the name of spatial queues. It also provides new results for time-inhomogeneous Markov jump processes and queues, in the theory of Markov-additive jump processes, and for statistical model fitting of arrival processes. The book is divided into three parts. The first part gives a new presentation of the theory of Markov jump processes and a number of new results, especially for time-inhomogeneous processes. Further, the class of Markov-additive processes is analyzed in detail. The second part contains new results for classical queues with batch Markovian arrival processes (BMAP). Further the class of fluid Markovian arrival processes is introduced, as well as a statistical estimation for the parameters of a BMAP. In the third part, the concepts of spatial Markovian arrival processes (SMAP) and spatial queues are introduced. After that, periodic spatial Markovian queues are analyzed as a model for the cells of a wireless communication network. The class of \(\text{SMAP/G/}\infty\) is examined, and it is demonstrated how to use them as a planning tool for the design of mobile communication networks. Finally, for the class of homogeneous SMAPs with finitely many phases a statistical procedure for model fitting is presented.