Modeling of queuing networks with finite capacity queues

  • Authors:

  • Bahram Keramati;Joan M. Lommel

  • Affiliations:

  • Corporate Research and Development, General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY;Corporate Research and Development, General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY

  • Venue:
  • WSC '83 Proceedings of the 15th conference on Winter simulation - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 1983

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Abstract

A model is presented for the blocking phenomena associated with queuing networks with finite capacity queues. The basic idea behind the model is the calculation of the average length of time the cells are in the “blocked” state, i.e., their downstream queue is filled to capacity. The model was tested and verified against an actual simulation for a simple network. Excellent agreement for the average quantities is demonstrated between the model and the simulation for both the downstream and upstream effects resulting from blocking. The model is quite general in its applicability to M/M/c queuing networks and is casy to implement.