Smoothing effect of the superposition of homogeneous sources in tandem networks

Smoothing effect of the superposition of homogeneous sources in tandem networks

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Article ID: iaor2004789
Country: United States
Volume: 37
Issue: 3
Start Page Number: 900
End Page Number: 913
Publication Date: Sep 2000
Journal: Journal of Applied Probability
Authors: , ,
Keywords: networks: path
Abstract:

We analyze the smoothing effect of superposing homogeneous sources in a network. We consider a tandem queueing network representing the nodes that customers generated by these sources pass through. The servers in the tandem queues have different time varying service rates. In between the tandem queues there are propagation delays. We show that for arbitrary arrival and service processes which are mutually independent, the sum of unfinished works in the tandem queues is monotone in the number of homogeneous sources in the increasing convex order sense, provided the total intensity of the foreground traffic is constant. The results hold for both fluid and discrete traffic models.

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