| Article ID: | iaor20013052 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 34 |
| Issue: | 1/4 |
| Start Page Number: | 169 |
| End Page Number: | 182 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2000 |
| Journal: | Queueing Systems |
| Authors: | Daduna Hans, Szekli Ryszard |
| Keywords: | networks: path |
We consider the joint distribution of successive sojourn times of customers traversing a path in Jackson network. It is shown in a general setting that sojourn times exhibit positive dependence. This especially applies to paths which admit overtaking due to the network topology as well as due to the internal node structure.