eigen vectors and traffic equations.

https://homepages.laas.fr/ccomte/teaching/2wb40/queueing-networks.pdf

if it's a closed network, then lambda is the eigenvectors of R.

The following inverse of a sparse matrix is very fast.
matlab
P = diag(1:10000);
P = sparse(P);
tic;
A = inv(P);
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