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Queueing output processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

D. J. Daley
D. J. Daley*
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Australian National University
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Abstract

The paper reviews various aspects, mostly mathematical, concerning the output or departure process of a general queueing system G/G/s/N with general arrival process, mutually independent service times, s servers (1 ≦ s ≦ ∞), and waiting room of size N (0 ≦ N ≦ ∞), subject to the assumption of being in a stable stationary condition. Known explicit results for the distribution of the stationary inter-departure intervals {Dn } for both infinite and finite-server systems are given, with some discussion on the use of reversibility in Markovian systems. Some detailed results for certain modified single-server M/G/1 systems are also available. Most of the known second-order properties of {Dn } depend on knowing that the system has either Poisson arrivals or exponential service times. The related stationary point process for which {Dn } is the stationary sequence of the corresponding Palm–Khinchin distribution is introduced and some of its second-order properties described. The final topic discussed concerns identifiability, and questions of characterizations of queueing systems in terms of the output process being a renewal process, or uncorrelated, or infinitely divisible.

Keywords

OUTPUT PROCESSDEPARTURE PROCESSPOINT PROCESSREVERSIBILITYRENEWAL PROCESS CHARACTERIZATIONS

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Advances in Applied Probability , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , June 1976 , pp. 395 - 415
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Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1976 

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