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Line Reversibility of Multiserver Systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2009

Dinah W. Cheng
Dinah W. Cheng
Affiliation:
Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Department of Statistics/Operations Research, 704 Tisch Hall, New York University, New York, New York 10012-1138
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Abstract

The line reversibility property of a two-stage multiserver system with manufacturing blocking has previously been established using a duality argument between the blocked state and the idle state. In this paper, we provide counterexamples that show this argument does not apply to systems with more than two stages. A focus of this paper is to provide a new proof for the result. Our argument is based on the duality between the service initiation and the service completion events.

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Research Article
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , April 1997 , pp. 177 - 188
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1997

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