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A single server tandem queue

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Sreekantan S. Nair*
Affiliation:
Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana

Abstract

Avi-Itzhak, Maxwell and Miller (1965) studied a queueing model with a single server serving two service units with alternating priority. Their model explored the possibility of having the alternating priority model treated in this paper with a single server serving alternately between two service units in tandem.

Here we study the distribution of busy period, virtual waiting time and queue length and their limiting behavior.

Type
Research Papers
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1971 

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