| Article ID: | iaor19993179 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 22 |
| Issue: | 1/2 |
| Start Page Number: | 65 |
| End Page Number: | 77 |
| Publication Date: | May 1996 |
| Journal: | Queueing Systems |
| Authors: | Stadje Wolfgang |
| Keywords: | tandem queues |
A closed exponential tandem queue in which every customer has to be served by two servers is considered. Given the numbers of customers lined up at each of the two servers, we derive the probability distributions of the waiting time of any customer until his second service is completed, and of the total busy time of the system.