• Title of article

    On tandemblockingqueueswithacommonretrialqueue

  • Author/Authors

    K. Avrachenkov، نويسنده , , Uri Yechiali، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    ماهنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2010
  • Pages
    7
  • From page
    1174
  • To page
    1180
  • Abstract
    Weconsidersystemsoftandemblockingqueueshavingacommonretrialqueue.Themodelrepresents dynamicsofshortTCPtransfersintheInternet.Analyticalresultsareavailableonlyforaspecific examplewithtwoqueuesintandem.Weproposeapproximationproceduresinvolvingsimpleanalytic expressions,basedonmeanvalueanalysis(MVA)andonfixedpointapproach(FPA).Themeansojourn time ofajobinthesystemandthemeannumberofvisitstotheorbitqueueareestimatedbytheMVA which needsasaninputthefractionsofblockedjobsintheprimaryqueues.Thefractionsofblocked jobs areestimatedbyFPA.Usingabenchmarkexampleofthesystemwithtwoprimaryqueues,we concludethattheapproximationworkswellinthelighttrafficregime.Wenotethatourapproach becomesexactiftheblockingprobabilitiesarefixed.Finally,weconsidertwooptimizationproblems regardingminimizingmeantotalsojourntimeofajobinthesystem:(i)findingthebestorderofqueues and (ii)allocatingagivencapacityamongtheprimaryqueues.
  • Keywords
    Retrial networks , Mean value analysis , Fixed point approach
  • Journal title
    Computers and Operations Research
  • Serial Year
    2010
  • Journal title
    Computers and Operations Research
  • Record number

    927727