Article ID: | iaor20023513 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 9 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 97 |
End Page Number: | 112 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2002 |
Journal: | International Transactions in Operational Research |
Authors: | Kobayashi Hisashi, Mark Brian L. |
Keywords: | networks |
The classical Erlang and Engset loss models have been used extensively in the traffic engineering of traditional telephone exchanges. More recently, these models have been generalized to the so-called loss networks, which provide models for resource-sharing in multi-service telecommunication networks. In this paper, we introduce a new generalized class of models, queueing-loss networks, which captures both queueing and loss aspects of a system. The queueing-loss network model is a natural extension of queueing networks and loss networks that have the product-form solution. We discuss applications of the model and analyze a particular example of a simple queueing-loss network.