Article ID: | iaor20041269 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 38 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 67 |
End Page Number: | 76 |
Publication Date: | May 2001 |
Journal: | Queueing Systems |
Authors: | Breuer Lothar |
Keywords: | GI/G/c queues |
In queueing theory, most models are based on time-homogeneous arrival processes and service time distributions. However, in communications networks arrival rates and/or the service capacity usually vary periodically in time. In order to reflect this property accurately, one needs to examine periodic rather than homogeneous queues. In the present paper, the periodic BMAP/PH/