| Article ID: | iaor200962751 |
| Country: | Singapore |
| Volume: | 25 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Start Page Number: | 477 |
| End Page Number: | 493 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2008 |
| Journal: | Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research |
| Authors: | Yang Jiankui, Guo Yongjiang, Wang Xuewu |
| Keywords: | fluid queue |
This paper considers a 2-station-5-class re-entrant line with infinite supply of work. We obtain the necessary and sufficient condition for its corresponding fluid model to be stable. As an application of the result, the positive Harris recurrence of the 2-station-5-class re-entrant line is established via the fluid model.