QUEUE IMPLEMENTATION USING LINKED LIST
IMPLEMENTATION OF QUEUE BY LINKED LIST
In computer science, a queue is a particular kind of abstract data type or collection
in which the entities in the collection are kept in order and the
principal (or only) operations on the collection are the addition of
entities to the rear and removal of entities from the
front. This makes the queue a First-In-First-Out (FIFO) data structure.
In a FIFO data structure, the first element added to the queue will be
the first one to be removed. This is equivalent to the requirement that
once an element is added, all elements that were added before have to be
removed before the new element can be invoked. A queue is an example of
a linear data structure.
Queues provide services in computer science, transport, and operations research
where various entities such as data, objects, persons, or events are
stored and held to be processed later. In these contexts, the queue
performs the function of a buffer.
Queues are common in computer programs, where they are implemented as data structures coupled with access routines, as an abstract data structure or in object-oriented languages as classes. Common implementations are circular buffers and linked lists.
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