Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) is considered to be the most promising transfer technique for BISDN due to its efficiency and flexibility. Queueing theory has been playing a very important role in performance evaluation of ATM for the past few years. This paper is composed of two parts. The first part is concerned with the several basic concepts of ATM. The second part surveys queueing approaches in ATM performance evaluation. It deals with stochastic models which have been proposed for the three basic categories of traffic sources (voice, data, video), various queueing models for statistical multiplexer and switch, and priority strategies for buffer control schemes.