Queue Data Structure

A queue is a kind of abstract data type or collection in which the entities in the collection are kept in order and the only operations on the collection are the addition of entities to the rear terminal position, called as enqueue, and removal of entities from the front terminal position, called as dequeue. The queue is called as 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 a new element is added, all elements that were added before have to be removed before the new element can be removed. Often a peek or front operation is also entered, returning the value of the front element without dequeuing it. A queue is an example of a linear data structure, or more abstractly a sequential collection.

List of Queue Data Structure Examples

1. Queue introduction & array based implementation
2. Dynamic Queue implementation using arrays
3. Double-ended queue (Decue) Implementation
4. Double-ended queue (Decue) implementation using Doubly linked list
5. Priority Queue introduction and Java implementation