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Stability of finite queue, tandem server systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

David K. Hildebrand
David K. Hildebrand*
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University of Pennsylvania
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One of the troublesome problems in the extension of queueing theory to more complex systems of servers is the development of models suitable for the analysis of assembly lines and similar structures. Results in special cases are given in [2], [5], and [6]. A reasonable model would assume:

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Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 4 , Issue 3 , November 1967, pp. 571 - 583
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