Product form networks with negative and positive customers
Product form networks with negative and positive customers
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产品与负面和正面客户形成网络
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1991
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E. Gelenbe
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作者:
E. Gelenbe
We introduce a new class of queueing networks in which customers are either "negative" or "positive". A negative customer arriving to a queue reduces the total customer count in that queue by one if the queue length is positive; it has no effect at all if the queue is empty. Negative customers do not receive service. Customers leaving a queue for another one can either become negative or remain pos itive. Pos itive customers behave as ordinary queueing network customers and receive service. We show that this model with exponential service times, Poisson external arrivals , with the usual independence assumptions for service times , and Markovian customer movements between queues , has product form. It is quasi-reversible in the usual sense, but not in a broader sense which includes all destructions of customers in the set of departures. The existence and uniqueness of the solutions to the (non-linear) customer flow equations, and hence of the product form solution, is discussed.