Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 July 2016
This paper introduces a new form of local balance and the corresponding product-form results. It is shown that these new product-form results allow capacity constraints at the stations of a queueing network without reversibility assumptions and without special blocking protocols. In particular, exact product-form results for heavily loaded queueing networks are obtained.
Research carried out partly while the author was with the Department of Econometrics, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, and partly while the author was ERCIM fellow at CWI, Amsterdam. Supported by the European Grant BRA-QMIPS of CEC DG XIII.