Zero-Automatic Networks

  • Authors:
  • Thu-Ha Dao-Thi;Jean Mairesse

  • Affiliations:
  • LIAFA, CNRS-Université Paris 7, Paris Cedex 05, France 75251;LIAFA, CNRS-Université Paris 7, Paris Cedex 05, France 75251

  • Venue:
  • Discrete Event Dynamic Systems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We continue the study of zero-automatic queues first introduced in Dao-Thi and Mairesse (Adv Appl Probab 39(2):429---461, 2007). These queues are characterized by a special buffering mechanism evolving like a random walk on some infinite group or monoid. The simple M/M/1 queue and Gelenbe's G-queue with positive and negative customers are the two simplest 0-automatic queues. All stable 0-automatic queues have an explicit "multiplicative" stationary distribution and a Poisson departure process (Dao-Thi and Mairesse, Adv Appl Probab 39(2):429---461, 2007). In this paper, we introduce and study networks of 0-automatic queues. We consider two types of networks, with either a Jackson-like or a Kelly-like routing mechanism. In both cases, and under the stability condition, we prove that the stationary distribution of the buffer contents has a "product-form" and can be explicitly determined. Furthermore, the departure process out of the network is Poisson.