Article ID: | iaor19921874 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 10 |
Issue: | 9 |
Start Page Number: | 541 |
End Page Number: | 547 |
Publication Date: | Dec 1991 |
Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
Authors: | Dallery Y., Towsley D. |
Keywords: | queues: theory |
In this paper the authors consider closed tandem queueing networks with finite buffers and blocking before service. With this type of blocking, a server is allowed to start processing a job only if there is an empty space in the next buffer. It was recently conjectured that the throughput of such networks is symmetrical with respect to the population of the network. That is, the throughput of the network with population