Steady-state asymptotics for tandem, split-match and other feedforward queues with heavy tailed service

  • Authors:
  • Tao Huang;Karl Sigman

  • Affiliations:
  • Citibank, Foreign Exchange Division, New York, NY, USA E-mail: tao.huang@citicorp.com;Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University, 500 West 120th Street, New York, NY 10027-6699, USA E-mail: sigman@ieor.columbia.edu

  • Venue:
  • Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

Consider a stable FIFO GI/GI/1\,\rightarrow\,/GI/1 tandem queue in which the equilibrium distribution of service time at the second node S(2) is subexponential. It is shown that when the service time at the first node has a lighter tail, the tail of steady-state delay at the second node, D(2), has the same asymptotics as if it were a GI/GI/1 queue: P(D(2) x) \sim {{\rho_2} \over {1-\rho_2}}P(S_{\mathrm{e}}(2) x), \quad x{\rightarrow}{\infty}, where S_{\mathrm{e}}(2) has equilibrium (integrated tail) density P(S(2) x)/ {E[S(2)]}, and \rho_2 = \lambda {E[S(2)]} (\lambda is the arrival rate of customers). The same result holds for tandem queues with more than two stations. For split-match (fork-join) queues with subexponential service times, we derive the asymptotics for both the sojourn time and the queue length. Finally, more generally, we consider feedforward generalized Jackson networks and obtain similar results.