| Article ID: | iaor1995771 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 16 |
| Issue: | 3/4 |
| Start Page Number: | 301 |
| End Page Number: | 310 |
| Publication Date: | May 1994 |
| Journal: | Queueing Systems |
| Authors: | Sakasegawa H., Kawashima T. |
| Keywords: | tandem queues |
Definitions of blocking types for tandem queueing systems are given where each stage consists of multiple servers. Some of them are shown to be identical with respect to service initiation epochs at each stage. Such identical relationships are proved using sample path correspondence, and are therefore valid irrespective of the arrival process and the service time distributions.