| Article ID: | iaor20041262 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 31 |
| Issue: | 5 |
| Start Page Number: | 383 |
| End Page Number: | 389 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2003 |
| Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
| Authors: | Resing Jacques, rmeci Lerzan |
| Keywords: | markov processes |
We consider a tandem queue with coupled processors and analyze the two-dimensional Markov process representing the numbers of jobs in the two stations. A functional equation for the generating function of the stationary distribution of this two-dimensional process is derived and solved through the theory of Riemann–Hilbert boundary value problems.