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Comparing multi-server queues with finite waiting rooms, I: Same number of servers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

David Sonderman
David Sonderman*
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Yale University
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∗ Postal address: Box 1070, New Haven CT 06504, U.S.A.
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Abstract

We compare two queueing systems with the same number of servers that differ by having stochastically ordered service times and/or interarrival times as well as different waiting room capacities. We establish comparisons for the sequences of actual-arrival and departure epochs, and demonstrate by counterexample that many stochastic comparisons possible with infinite waiting rooms no longer hold with finite waiting rooms.

Keywords

QUEUESBOUNDSSTOCHASTIC COMPARISONSFINITE WAITING ROOMSMULTI-SERVER QUEUESPATH ORDER

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Advances in Applied Probability , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , June 1979, pp. 439 - 447
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Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1979 

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