AN EFFICIENT DECOMPOSITION METHOD FOR THE APPROXIMATE EVALUATION OF TANDEM QUEUES WITH FINITE STORAGE SPACE AND BLOCKING

被引:342
作者
GERSHWIN, SB
机构
[1] MIT,DEPT ELECT ENGN & COMP SCI,CAMBRIDGE,MA 02139
[2] BOSTON UNIV,COLL ENGN,BOSTON,MA 02215
[3] BOSTON UNIV,MFG SYST & PRODUCTIV LAB,BOSTON,MA 02215
关键词
PRODUCTION CONTROL - Operations Research - SYSTEMS SCIENCE AND CYBERNETICS;
D O I
10.1287/opre.35.2.291
中图分类号
C93 [管理学];
学科分类号
12 ; 1201 ; 1202 ; 120202 ;
摘要
This paper presents an efficient method for evaluating performance measures for a class of tandem queueing systems with finite buffers in which blocking and starvation are important. These systems are difficult to evaluate because they have large state spaces and because they cannot be decomposed exactly. The approximate decomposition approach we describe is based on system characteristics such as conservation of flow. Comparisons with exact and simulation results indicate that the approach is very accurate.
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页码:291 / 305
页数:15
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