| Article ID: | iaor19942000 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 14 |
| Issue: | 3/4 |
| Start Page Number: | 457 |
| End Page Number: | 473 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 1993 |
| Journal: | Queueing Systems |
| Authors: | Langaris C. |
| Keywords: | priority queues |
A two-stage queueing system with two types of customers and non-preemptive priorities is analyzed. There is no waiting space between stages and so the blocking phenomenon is observed. The arrivals follow a Poisson distribution for the high priority customers and a gamma distribution for the low priority customers, while all service times are arbitrarily distributed. The paper derives expressions for the Laplace transform of the waiting time density of a low priority customer both in the transient and the steady state.