Computational Procedures for a Class of GI/D/k Systems in Discrete Time

A class of discrete time GI/D/k systems is considered for which the interarrival times have finite support and customers are served in first-in first-out (FIFO) order. The system is formulated as a single server queue with new general independent interarrival times and constant service duration by...

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Main Authors: Md. Mostafizur Rahman, Attahiru Sule Alfa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2009-01-01
Series:Journal of Probability and Statistics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/716364
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Summary:A class of discrete time GI/D/k systems is considered for which the interarrival times have finite support and customers are served in first-in first-out (FIFO) order. The system is formulated as a single server queue with new general independent interarrival times and constant service duration by assuming cyclic assignment of customers to the identical servers. Then the queue length is set up as a quasi-birth-death (QBD) type Markov chain. It is shown that this transformed GI/D/1 system has special structures which make the computation of the matrix R simple and efficient, thereby reducing the number of multiplications in each iteration significantly. As a result we were able to keep the computation time very low. Moreover, use of the resulting structural properties makes the computation of the distribution of queue length of the transformed system efficient. The computation of the distribution of waiting time is also shown to be simple by exploiting the special structures.
ISSN:1687-952X
1687-9538