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PRODUCT-FORM IN G-NETWORKS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2016

Andrea Marin
Andrea Marin*
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Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics Universià Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italy E-mail: marin@dais.unive.it
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The introduction of the class of queueing networks called G-networks by Gelenbe has been a breakthrough in the field of stochastic modeling since it has largely expanded the class of models which are analytically or numerically tractable. From a theoretical point of view, the introduction of the G-networks has lead to very important considerations: first, a product-form queueing network may have non-linear traffic equations; secondly, we can have a product-form equilibrium distribution even if the customer routing is defined in such a way that more than two queues can change their states at the same time epoch. In this work, we review some of the classes of product-forms introduced for the analysis of the G-networks with special attention to these two aspects. We propose a methodology that, coherently with the product-form result, allows for a modular analysis of the G-queues to derive the equilibrium distribution of the network.

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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences , Volume 30 , Issue 3: Erol Gelenbe's 70th Birthday , July 2016 , pp. 345 - 360
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