| Article ID: | iaor1993808 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 11 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Start Page Number: | 233 |
| End Page Number: | 242 |
| Publication Date: | May 1992 |
| Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
| Authors: | Buzacott John A., Liu Xiao-Gao |
In this paper the authors extend the reversibility property of production lines to the case of cyclic queues. They show that if the direction of the customer movement in a cyclic queue system is reversed, the throughput of the system remains unchanged under both production blocking and communication blocking.