Article ID: | iaor19921967 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 17 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 365 |
End Page Number: | 391 |
Publication Date: | May 1992 |
Journal: | Mathematics of Operations Research |
Authors: | Gail H.R., Hantler S.L., Taylor B.A. |
The authors consider a queueing system with multiple servers and two classes of customers operating under a preemptive resume priority rule. The arrival process for each class is Poisson, and the service times are exponentially distributed with different means. In a convenient state space representation of the system, the authors obtain the matrix equation for the two-dimensional, vector-valued generating function of the equilibrium probability distribution. They give a rigorous proof that, by successively eliminating variables from the matrix equations, a nonsingular, block tridiagonal system of equations is obtained for the set of