Heterogeneous multitrunking queueing systems with thresholds

Martin J. Fischer and Carl M. Harris

Naval Research Logistics (NRL), 1991, vol. 38, issue 4, 579-597

Abstract: Queueing systems with multiple servers are commonly used to model telecommunications systems. But, in general, the service rate of each of the servers is not the same. This fact is indeed true in a communication network where one path (server) may be a terrestrial link and the other (server) a satellite link with its inherent propagation delay. In this article we consider a two‐server system where arriving customers are first placed in the queue for the faster server until that queue size reaches a certain threshold, whereupon they are diverted to the slower server. Additional arriving customers are assigned to the slower server until the faster server's queue drops to another lower threshold, at which point arrivals are reassigned to the faster server. We develop an exact mathematical model of the steady‐state behavior of each queueing system and a simple analytic approximation.

Date: 1991
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