| Article ID: | iaor20061031 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 33 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Start Page Number: | 373 |
| End Page Number: | 381 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2005 |
| Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
| Authors: | Alfa Attahiru Sule, Houdt B. Van |
| Keywords: | markov processes |
A novel approach for obtaining the response time in a discrete-time tandem-queue with blocking is presented. The approach constructs a Markov chain based on the age of the leading customer in the first queue. We also provide a stability condition and carry out several numerical examples.