Sojourn times in feedback queues

J.L. Berg, van den, O.J. Boxma

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Abstract

In many modern computer-communication systems, a job may be processed in several phases, or a job may generate new tasks. Such phenomena can be modeled by service systems with feedback. In the queueing literature, attention has been mainly devoted to single-service queues with so-called Bernoulli feedback: when a customer (task) completes his service, he departs from the system with probability l-p and is fed back with probability p. In the present study a more general feedback mechanism is allowed: when a customer completes his i-th service, he departs from the system with probability l-p(i) and is fed back with probability p(i). We mainly restrict ourselves to the case of a Poisson external arrival process and identically, negative exponentially, distributed service times at each service. The resulting queueing model has the property that the joint queue-length distribution of type-i customers, i=1,2,⋯, is of product-form type. This property is exploited to analyse the sojourn-time process.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationOperations Research Proceedings 1987 (Papers of the 16th Annual Meeting of DGOR, in cooperation with NSOR, Veldhoven, The Netherlands, September 23-25, 1987)
EditorsH. Schellhaas, P. Beek, van, H. Isermann, R. Schmidt, M. Zijlstra
Place of PublicationBerlin
PublisherSpringer
Pages478-478
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-642-73778-7
ISBN (Print)978-3-540-19365-4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1989
Event16th Annual Meeting of DGOR - Veldhoven, Netherlands
Duration: 23 Sept 198725 Sept 1987

Conference

Conference16th Annual Meeting of DGOR
Country/TerritoryNetherlands
CityVeldhoven
Period23/09/8725/09/87

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