On the ordering of tandem queues with exponential servers

1986 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tapani Lehtonen

We consider tandem queues which have a general arrival process. The queueing system consists of s (s ≧ 2) single-server service stations and the servers have exponential service-time distributions. Firstly we give a new proof for the fact that the departure process does not depend on the particular allocation of the servers to the stations. Secondly, considering the service rates, we prove that the departure process becomes stochastically faster as the homogeneity of the servers increases in the sense of a given condition. It turns out that, given the sum of the service rates, the departure process is stochastically fastest in the case where the servers are homogeneous.

1986 ◽  
Vol 23 (01) ◽  
pp. 115-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tapani Lehtonen

We consider tandem queues which have a general arrival process. The queueing system consists of s (s ≧ 2) single-server service stations and the servers have exponential service-time distributions. Firstly we give a new proof for the fact that the departure process does not depend on the particular allocation of the servers to the stations. Secondly, considering the service rates, we prove that the departure process becomes stochastically faster as the homogeneity of the servers increases in the sense of a given condition. It turns out that, given the sum of the service rates, the departure process is stochastically fastest in the case where the servers are homogeneous.


Author(s):  
F. P. Kelly

Consider a single-server queueing system with a Poisson arrival process at rate λ and positive service requirements independently distributed with common distribution function B(z) and finite expectationwhere βλ < 1, i.e. an M/G/1 system. When the queue discipline is first come first served, or last come first served without pre-emption, the stationary departure process is Poisson if and only if G = M (i.e. B(z) = 1 − exp (−z/β)); see (8), (4) and (2). In this paper it is shown that when the queue discipline is last come first served with pre-emption the stationary departure process is Poisson whatever the form of B(z). The method used is adapted from the approach of Takács (10) and Shanbhag and Tambouratzis (9).


1992 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 727-737 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard R. Weber

Consider m queueing stations in tandem, with infinite buffers between stations, all initially empty, and an arbitrary arrival process at the first station. The service time of customer j at station i is geometrically distributed with parameter pi, but this is conditioned on the fact that the sum of the m service times for customer j is cj. Service times of distinct customers are independent. We show that for any arrival process to the first station the departure process from the last station is statistically unaltered by interchanging any of the pi's. This remains true for two stations in tandem even if there is only a buffer of finite size between them. The well-known interchangeability of ·/M/1 queues is a special case of this result. Other special cases provide interesting new results.


1992 ◽  
Vol 24 (03) ◽  
pp. 727-737 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard R. Weber

Consider m queueing stations in tandem, with infinite buffers between stations, all initially empty, and an arbitrary arrival process at the first station. The service time of customer j at station i is geometrically distributed with parameter pi, but this is conditioned on the fact that the sum of the m service times for customer j is cj . Service times of distinct customers are independent. We show that for any arrival process to the first station the departure process from the last station is statistically unaltered by interchanging any of the pi 's. This remains true for two stations in tandem even if there is only a buffer of finite size between them. The well-known interchangeability of ·/M/1 queues is a special case of this result. Other special cases provide interesting new results.


1986 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 256-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert D. Foley

We present some non-stationary infinite-server queueing systems with stationary Poisson departure processes. In Foley (1982), it was shown that the departure process from the Mt/Gt/∞ queue was a Poisson process, possibly non-stationary. The Mt/Gt/∞ queue is an infinite-server queue with a stationary or non-stationary Poisson arrival process and a general server in which the service time of a customer may depend upon the customer's arrival time. Mirasol (1963) pointed out that the departure process from the M/G/∞ queue is a stationary Poisson process. The question arose whether there are any other Mt/Gt/∞ queueing systems with stationary Poisson departure processes. For example, if the arrival rate is periodic, is it possible to select the service-time distribution functions to fluctuate in order to compensate for the fluctuations of the arrival rate? In this situation and in more general situations, it is possible to select the server such that the system yields a stationary Poisson departure process.


1990 ◽  
Vol 27 (02) ◽  
pp. 465-468 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arie Harel

We show that the waiting time in queue and the sojourn time of every customer in the G/G/1 and G/D/c queue are jointly convex in mean interarrival time and mean service time, and also jointly convex in mean interarrival time and service rate. Counterexamples show that this need not be the case, for the GI/GI/c queue or for the D/GI/c queue, for c ≧ 2. Also, we show that the average number of customers in the M/D/c queue is jointly convex in arrival and service rates. These results are surprising in light of the negative result for the GI/GI/2 queue (Weber (1983)).


1997 ◽  
Vol 34 (03) ◽  
pp. 800-805 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vyacheslav M. Abramov

This paper consists of two parts. The first part provides a more elementary proof of the asymptotic theorem of the refusals stream for an M/GI/1/n queueing system discussed in Abramov (1991a). The central property of the refusals stream discussed in the second part of this paper is that, if the expectations of interarrival and service time of an M/GI/1/n queueing system are equal to each other, then the expectation of the number of refusals during a busy period is equal to 1. This property is extended for a wide family of single-server queueing systems with refusals including, for example, queueing systems with bounded waiting time.


1997 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 767-772 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. Barnes ◽  
Richard Meili

The points of a non-stationary Poisson process with periodic intensity are independently shifted forward in time in such a way that the transformed process is stationary Poisson. The mean shift is shown to be minimal. The approach used is to consider an Mt/Gt/∞ queueing system where the arrival process is a non-stationary Poisson with periodic intensity function. A minimal service time distribution is constructed that yields a stationary Poisson departure process.


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