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Servers in tandem with communication and manufacturing blocking

Part of: Operations research and management science Special processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Benjamin Avi-Itzhak  and
Shlomo Halfin
Benjamin Avi-Itzhak*
Affiliation:
Rutgers University
Shlomo Halfin*
Affiliation:
Bellcore
*
∗ Postal address: School of Business and RUTCOR, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, USA.
∗∗ Postal address: Bellcore, 445 South Street, Morristown, NJ 07960, USA.
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Abstract

Tandem queueing systems with blocking are frequently used in modelling of data communications and production transfer lines. We study such a system with no intermediate queues under the communication and the manufacturing blocking schemes and the assumption of just-in-time input. Explicit expressions for residence times, departure times, equilibrium throughput and some other measures of performance are obtained for the case of equal service requirements at all servers. This case is shown to be the ‘worst’ under the manufacturing blocking scheme, but not under the communication blocking scheme. An approximation formula is proposed for the equilibrium throughput in the case of exponential i.i.d. service times under the manufacturing blocking scheme.

Keywords

TANDEM QUEUESDATA COMMUNICATIONSPRODUCTION TRANSFERJUST-IN-TIMETHROUGHPUT

MSC classification

Primary: 60K25: Queueing theory
Secondary: 90B30: Production models
Type
Research Papers
Information
Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , June 1993 , pp. 429 - 437
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1993 

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