Article ID: | iaor19961059 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 7 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 397 |
End Page Number: | 410 |
Publication Date: | Jul 1994 |
Journal: | Journal of Applied Mathematics and Stochastic Analysis |
Authors: | Atkinson J. Ben, Kovalenko Igor N. |
This paper considers methods for calculating the steady-state loss probability in the GI/G/2/0 queue. A previous study analyzed this queue in discrete time and this led to an efficient, numerical approximation scheme for continuous-time systems. The primary aim of the present work is to provide an alternative approach by analyzing the GI/ME/2/0 queue; i.e., assuming that the service time can be represented by a matrix-exponential distribution. An efficient computational scheme based on this method is developed and some numerical examples are studied. Some comparisons are made with the discrete-time approach, and the two methods are seen to be complementary.