Mean sojourn time in a parallel queue

Authors
Publication date 2009
Journal Aenorm
Volume | Issue number 17 | 64
Pages (from-to) 63-66
Organisations
  • Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) - Amsterdam School of Economics Research Institute (ASE-RI)
Abstract This account considers a parallel queue, which is two-queue network, where any arrival
generates a job at both queues. It is noted that earlier work has revealed that this class of
models is notoriously hard to analyze. We first evaluate a number of bounds developed in the literature, and observe that under fairly broad circumstances these can be rather inaccurate. For the 'homogeneous' case we present a number of approximations, which are extensively tested by simulation, and turn out to perform remarkably well.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at http://www.aenorm.eu/editions/?edt=13&art=121
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