Article ID: | iaor20003422 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 21 |
Issue: | 4 |
Start Page Number: | 201 |
End Page Number: | 208 |
Publication Date: | Nov 1997 |
Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
Authors: | Miyazawa Masakiyo, Dijk Nico M. van |
Keywords: | tandem queues |
A simple practical approximation is studied for a two-stage tandem queue with a finite first station. Explicit small error bounds are obtained for the mean queue length and the tail probabilities of the second queue. These error bounds are based on a new application of an existing error bound theorem for comparing Markov chains. The extension requires the so-called bias-terms to be bounded by a bounding function that can be unbounded or oppositely become small. The extension is of interest for further exploitation.