| Article ID: | iaor19961058 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 63 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Start Page Number: | 463 |
| End Page Number: | 477 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 1992 |
| Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
| Authors: | So Kut C., Chin Ke-tsai E. |
| Keywords: | tandem queues |
This paper presents a lower bound and an upper bound on the throughput of a multiserver exponential tandem queue with finite buffers. These bounds are based on two models which possess product form solutions, and thus are computationally efficient. The results extend previous work in this area. The paper presents an extensive numerical study to evaluate the performance of these bounds.