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Applications of Queue, Circular Queue, Priority Queue, Deque

The document outlines various applications of queue data structures, including real-world examples like cashier lines and escalators, as well as computer science applications such as CPU scheduling and job scheduling algorithms. It also discusses specific types of queues, including circular queues used in traffic lights and page replacement algorithms, deques for palindrome checking and task scheduling, and priority queues for algorithms like Dijkstra's and Prim's. Overall, queues play a crucial role in both everyday scenarios and complex computational tasks.

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Applications of Queue, Circular Queue, Priority Queue, Deque

The document outlines various applications of queue data structures, including real-world examples like cashier lines and escalators, as well as computer science applications such as CPU scheduling and job scheduling algorithms. It also discusses specific types of queues, including circular queues used in traffic lights and page replacement algorithms, deques for palindrome checking and task scheduling, and priority queues for algorithms like Dijkstra's and Prim's. Overall, queues play a crucial role in both everyday scenarios and complex computational tasks.

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Applications of priority queue, circular

queue, deque | Queue data structure


applications

Queue is an abstract data structure that follows the FIFO (First In First Out) principle
where an element that is added first will be deleted first. Also, there are linear data
structures as the elements are linearly arranged. The following are the various
applications of queue.

Some of the real world applications of queues are

 Cashier line in any store.


 People in an escalator.
 Check in and check out at any book store.

Some of the applications of queues related to computer science are

 Data getting transferred between the IO Buffers (Input Output


Buffers).
 CPU scheduling and Disk scheduling.
 Managing shared resources between various processes.
 Job scheduling algorithms.
 Round robin scheduling.
 Recognizing a palindrome.

Applications of circular queue

 Traffic light functioning is the best example for circular queues. The
colors in the traffic light follow a circular pattern.
 In page replacement algorithms, a circular list of pages is maintained
and when a page needs to be replaced, the page in the front of the
queue will be chosen.

Applications of deque

 Pallindrome checker.
 A-steal job scheduling algorithm

- The A-steal algorithm implements task scheduling for multiple processors


(multiprocessor scheduling).
- The processor gets the first element from the double ended queue.
- When one of the processors completes execution of its own thread, it can steal
a thread from other processors.
- It gets the last element from the deque of another processor and executes it.

 Undo-redo operations in software applications.

Applications of Priority Queue

 Prim's algorithm implementation can be done using priority queues.


 Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm implementation can be done
using priority queues.
 A* Search algorithm implementation can be done using priority
queues.
 Priority queues are used to sort heaps.
 Priority queues are used in operating system for load
balancing and interrupt handling.
 Priority queues are used in huffman codes for data compression.
 In traffic light, depending upon the traffic, the colors will be given
priority.

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