Montonicity properties of single-server retrial queues

Montonicity properties of single-server retrial queues

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Article ID: iaor19941201
Country: United States
Volume: 9
Issue: 3
Start Page Number: 373
End Page Number: 400
Publication Date: Jul 1993
Journal: Stochastic Models
Authors: ,
Abstract:

A single server retrial queue is a queueing system consisting of a primary queue with finite capacity, an orbit and a server. Customers can arrive at the primary queue either from outside the system or from the orbit. If the primary queue is full, an arriving customer joins the orbit and conducts a retrial later. Otherwise, the customer enters the primary queue, waits for service and then leaves the system after service completion. The authors investigate the effect of retrial times on the behavior of the system. In particular, they assume that the retrial time distributions are phase type and introduce a new relation, which the authors call K-dominance (short for Kalmykov), on these distributions. Longer retrial times with respect to this K-dominance are shown to result in a more congested system in the stochastic sense. From these results, they derive monotonicity properties of several system performance measures of interest.

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