The reversibility of cyclic queues

  • Authors:

  • Xiao-Gao Liu;John A Buzacott

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Management Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ont., Canada;Department of Management Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ont., Canada

  • Venue:
  • Operations Research Letters
  • Year:
  • 1992

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Abstract

In this paper we extend the reversibility property of production lines to the case of cyclic queues. We show that if the direction of the customer movement in a cyclic queue system is reversed, the throughput of the system remains unchaned under both production blocking and communication blocking.