Author:
Chao Xiuli,Pinedo Michael
Abstract
Consider a generalized queueing network model that is subject to two types of arrivals. The first type represents the regular customers; the second type represents signals. A signal induces a regular customer already present at a node to leave. Gelenbe [5] showed that such a network possesses a product form solution when each node consists of a single exponential server. In this paper we study a number of issues concerning this class of networks. First, we explain why such networks have a product form solution. Second, we generalize existing results to include different service disciplines, state-dependent service rates, multiple job classes, and batch servicing. Finally, we establish the relationship between these networks and networks of quasi-reversible queues. We show that the product form solution of the generalized networks is a consequence of a property of the individual nodes viewed in isolation. This property is similar to the quasi-reversibility property of the nodes of a Jackson network: if the arrivals of the regular customers and of the signals at a node in isolation are independent Poisson, the departure processes of the regular customers and the signals are also independent Poisson, and the current state of the system is independent of the past departure processes.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering,Management Science and Operations Research,Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty,Statistics and Probability
Cited by
47 articles.
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