Article ID: | iaor20021439 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 17 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 39 |
End Page Number: | 60 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2001 |
Journal: | Communications in Statistics - Stochastic Models |
Authors: | Boucherie Richard J., Buchholz Peter, Bause Falko |
Keywords: | networks: path, stochastic processes |
This paper shows that the aggregation and decomposition results known as Norton's theorem for queueing networks can be extended to a general class of batch routing queueing networks with product-form solution that allows for multiple components to simultaneously release and receive (batches of) customers.