Article ID: | iaor20043366 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 31 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 81 |
End Page Number: | 99 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2004 |
Journal: | Computers and Operations Research |
Authors: | Bruneel Herwig, Wittevrongel Sabine, Gao Peixia |
In this paper, a discrete-time multiserver queueing system with infinite buffer size and general independent arrivals is considered. The service time of packets are assumed to be independent and identically distributed according to a geometric distribution. Each packet gets service from only one server. In the paper, the behavior of the queueing system is studied analytically by means of a generating-functions approach. This results in closed-form expressions for the mean values, the variances and the tail distributions of the system contents and the packet delay. Some numerical examples are given to illustrate the analysis.