Article ID: | iaor20002513 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 26 |
Issue: | 3/4 |
Start Page Number: | 269 |
End Page Number: | 284 |
Publication Date: | Nov 1997 |
Journal: | Queueing Systems |
Authors: | Hu J.Q., Girish M.K. |
Keywords: | GI/G/1 queues |
The performance evaluation of many complex manufacturing, communication and computer systems has been made possible by modeling them as queueing systems. Many approximations used in queueing theory have been drawn from the behavior of queues in light and heavy traffic conditions. In this paper, we propose a new approximation technique, which combines the light and heavy traffic characteristics. This interpolation approximation is based on the theory of multipoint Padé approximation which is applied at two points: light and heavy traffic. We show how this can be applied for estimating the waiting time moments of the