Symmetric queues with batch departures and their networks

1996 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 308-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masakiyo Miyazawa ◽  
Ronald W. Wolff
Keyword(s):  
Queue Length ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Stochastic Order ◽  
Length Distribution ◽  
Stability Conditions ◽  
Service Discipline ◽  
Single Node ◽  
Stationary Queue Length ◽  
Poisson Arrivals ◽  
Service Times

Batch departures arise in various applications of queues. In particular, such models have been studied recently in connection with production systems. For the most part, however, these models assume Poisson arrivals and exponential service times; little is known about them under more general settings. We consider how their stationary queue length distributions are affected by the distributions of interarrival times, service times and departing batch sizes of customers. Since this is not an easy problem even for single departure models, we first concentrate on single-node queues with a symmetric service discipline, which is known to have nice properties. We start with pre-emptive LIFO, a special case of the symmetric service discipline, and then consider symmetric queues with Poisson arrivals. Stability conditions and stationary queue length distributions are obtained for them, and several stochastic order relations are considered. For the symmetric queues and Poisson arrivals, we also discuss their network. Stability conditions and the stationary joint queue length distribution are obtained for this network.

Symmetric queues with batch departures and their networks

1996 ◽  
Vol 28 (01) ◽  
pp. 308-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masakiyo Miyazawa ◽  
Ronald W. Wolff
Keyword(s):  
Queue Length ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Stochastic Order ◽  
Length Distribution ◽  
Stability Conditions ◽  
Service Discipline ◽  
Single Node ◽  
Stationary Queue Length ◽  
Poisson Arrivals ◽  
Service Times

Batch departures arise in various applications of queues. In particular, such models have been studied recently in connection with production systems. For the most part, however, these models assume Poisson arrivals and exponential service times; little is known about them under more general settings. We consider how their stationary queue length distributions are affected by the distributions of interarrival times, service times and departing batch sizes of customers. Since this is not an easy problem even for single departure models, we first concentrate on single-node queues with a symmetric service discipline, which is known to have nice properties. We start with pre-emptive LIFO, a special case of the symmetric service discipline, and then consider symmetric queues with Poisson arrivals. Stability conditions and stationary queue length distributions are obtained for them, and several stochastic order relations are considered. For the symmetric queues and Poisson arrivals, we also discuss their network. Stability conditions and the stationary joint queue length distribution are obtained for this network.

scholarly journals Steady-state analysis of a multiserver queue in the Halfin-Whitt regime

2008 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 548-577 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Gamarnik ◽  
Petar Momčilović
Keyword(s):  
Queue Length ◽  
Heavy Traffic ◽  
Length Distribution ◽  
Moment Generating Function ◽  
Compact Representation ◽  
Single Server ◽  
Service Time Distribution ◽  
Spare Capacity ◽  
Queue Length Distribution ◽  
Stationary Queue Length

We consider a multiserver queue in the Halfin-Whitt regime: as the number of serversngrows without a bound, the utilization approaches 1 from below at the rateAssuming that the service time distribution is lattice valued with a finite support, we characterize the limiting scaled stationary queue length distribution in terms of the stationary distribution of an explicitly constructed Markov chain. Furthermore, we obtain an explicit expression for the critical exponent for the moment generating function of a limiting stationary queue length. This exponent has a compact representation in terms of three parameters: the amount of spare capacity and the coefficients of variation of interarrival and service times. Interestingly, it matches an analogous exponent corresponding to a single-server queue in the conventional heavy-traffic regime.

On the many server queue with exponential service times

1973 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 170-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. H. A. De Smit
Keyword(s):  
Waiting Time ◽  
Queue Length ◽  
Busy Period ◽  
Virtual Waiting Time ◽  
Server Queue ◽  
Poisson Arrivals ◽  
Service Times ◽  
The Many ◽  
Special Case ◽  
Busy Cycle

The general theory for the many server queue due to Pollaczek (1961) and generalized by the author (de Smit (1973)) is applied to the system with exponential service times. In this way many explicit results are obtained for the distributions of characteristic quantities, such as the actual waiting time, the virtual waiting time, the queue length, the number of busy servers, the busy period and the busy cycle. Most of these results are new, even for the special case of Poisson arrivals.

A non-exponential queueing system with independent arrivals and batch servicing

1990 ◽  
Vol 27 (02) ◽  
pp. 401-408
Author(s):  
Nico M. Van Dijk ◽  
Eric Smeitink
Keyword(s):  
Queue Length ◽  
Queueing System ◽  
Length Distribution ◽  
Service Systems ◽  
Batch Service ◽  
Repair System ◽  
Theoretical Interest ◽  
Form Expression ◽  
Queue Length Distribution ◽  
Service Times

We study a queueing system with a finite number of input sources. Jobs are individually generated by a source but wait to be served in batches, during which the input of that source is stopped. The service speed of a server depends on the mode of other sources and thus includes interdependencies. The input and service times are allowed to be generally distributed. A classical example is a machine repair system where the machines are subject to shocks causing cumulative damage. A product-form expression is obtained for the steady state joint queue length distribution and shown to be insensitive (i.e. to depend on only mean input and service times). The result is of both practical and theoretical interest as an extension of more standard batch service systems.

On regenerative and ergodic properties of the k-server queue with non-stationary Poisson arrivals

1985 ◽  
Vol 22 (04) ◽  
pp. 893-902 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hermann Thorisson
Keyword(s):  
Queue Length ◽  
Rates Of Convergence ◽  
Regenerative Process ◽  
Stochastic Domination ◽  
Homogeneous Markov Process ◽  
Ergodic Properties ◽  
Server Queue ◽  
Poisson Arrivals ◽  
Service Times ◽  
Residual Service

We consider the stable k-server queue with non-stationary Poisson arrivals and i.i.d. service times and show that the non-time-homogeneous Markov process Zt = (the queue length and residual service times at time t) can be subordinated to a stable time-homogeneous regenerative process. As an application we show that if the system starts from given conditions at time s then the distribution of Zt stabilizes (but depends on t) as s tends backwards to –∞. Also moment and stochastic domination results are established for the delay and recurrence times of the regenerative process leading to results on uniform rates of convergence.

On the many server queue with exponential service times

1973 ◽  
Vol 5 (01) ◽  
pp. 170-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. H. A. De Smit
Keyword(s):  
Waiting Time ◽  
Queue Length ◽  
Busy Period ◽  
Virtual Waiting Time ◽  
Server Queue ◽  
Poisson Arrivals ◽  
Service Times ◽  
The Many ◽  
Special Case ◽  
Busy Cycle

The general theory for the many server queue due to Pollaczek (1961) and generalized by the author (de Smit (1973)) is applied to the system with exponential service times. In this way many explicit results are obtained for the distributions of characteristic quantities, such as the actual waiting time, the virtual waiting time, the queue length, the number of busy servers, the busy period and the busy cycle. Most of these results are new, even for the special case of Poisson arrivals.

Traffic light queues as a generalization to queueing theory

1971 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 480-493 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hisashi Mine ◽  
Katsuhisa Ohno
Keyword(s):  
Generating Function ◽  
Discrete Time ◽  
Queue Length ◽  
Length Distribution ◽  
Probability Generating Function ◽  
Traffic Light ◽  
Queue Length Distribution ◽  
Mean Delay ◽  
Stationary Queue Length ◽  
Stationary Queue Length Distribution

Fixed-cycle traffic light queues have been investigated by probabilistic methods by many authors. Beckmann, McGuire and Winsten (1956) considered a discrete time queueing model with binomial arrivals and regular departure headways and derived a relation between the stationary mean delay per vehicle and the stationary mean queue-length at the beginning of a red period of the traffic light. Haight (1959) and Buckley and Wheeler (1964) considered models with Poisson arrivals and regular departure headways and investigated certain properties of the queue-length. Newell (1960) dealt with the model proposed by the first authors and obtained the probability generating function of the stationary queue-length distribution. Darroch (1964) discussed a more general discrete time model with stationary, independent arrivals and regular departure headways and derived a necessary and sufficient condition for the stationary queue-length distribution to exist and obtained its probability generating function. The above two authors, Little (1961), Miller (1963), Newell (1965), McNeil (1968), Siskind (1970) and others gave approximate expressions for the stationary mean delay per vehicle for fixed-cycle traffic light queues of various types. All of the authors mentioned above dealt with the queue-length.

Heavy traffic asymptotics of the queue length in the GI/M/l – K queue

1996 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 519-543 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongzhi Yang ◽  
Charles Knessl
Keyword(s):  
Queue Length ◽  
Perturbation Methods ◽  
Heavy Traffic ◽  
Length Distribution ◽  
Asymptotic Approximations ◽  
Queue Length Distribution ◽  
Singular Perturbation Methods ◽  
Stationary Queue Length ◽  
Stationary Queue Length Distribution

We consider the GI/M/1 – K queue which has a capacity of K customers. Using singular perturbation methods, we construct asymptotic approximations to the stationary queue length distribution. We assume that K is large and treat several different parameter regimes. Extensive numerical comparisons are used to show the quality of the proposed approximations.

scholarly journals The BMAP/G/1 vacation queue with queue-length dependent vacation schedule

1998 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Woo Shin ◽  
Chareles E. M. Pearce
Keyword(s):  
Queue Length ◽  
Length Distribution ◽  
Arrival Process ◽  
Service Discipline ◽  
Single Server ◽  
Server Vacation ◽  
Batch Markovian Arrival Process ◽  
Queue Length Distribution ◽  
Special Cases ◽  
Number Of Customers

AbstractWe treat a single-server vacation queue with queue-length dependent vacation schedules. This subsumes the single-server vacation queue with exhaustive service discipline and the vacation queue with Bernoulli schedule as special cases. The lengths of vacation times depend on the number of customers in the system at the beginning of a vacation. The arrival process is a batch-Markovian arrival process (BMAP). We derive the queue-length distribution at departure epochs. By using a semi-Markov process technique, we obtain the Laplace-Stieltjes transform of the transient queue-length distribution at an arbitrary time point and its limiting distribution

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