 
                                                                                | Article ID: | iaor2005768 | 
| Country: | United Kingdom | 
| Volume: | 31 | 
| Issue: | 13 | 
| Start Page Number: | 2137 | 
| End Page Number: | 2150 | 
| Publication Date: | Nov 2004 | 
| Journal: | Computers and Operations Research | 
| Authors: | Chaudhry M.L., Gupta U.C., Goswami V. | 
| Keywords: | communication, markov processes | 
Multiserver queues are often encountered in telecommunications systems and have special importance in the design of asynchronous transfer node network. This paper analyzes a discrete-time multiserver queueing system with finite buffer in which the interarrival and service times are, respectively, arbitrarily and geometrically distributed. Using supplementary variable and imbedded Markov-chain techniques, the queue is analyzed for the early arrival system. Besides, developing relations among state probabilities at prearrival, arbitrary and outside observer's observant epochs, the waiting-time analysis is also carried out.