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Original Articles

Quasi-stationary distributions in a PH/PH/c queue

Pages 195-212 | Received 25 Nov 1991, Accepted 10 Dec 1992, Published online: 21 Mar 2007
 

Abstract

Explicit representations of the quasi-stationary (QS) distributions in a multi-server phase-type queue are obtained by extending the results for a single server queue in Kijima (1993). Two types of QS distributions are treated, one for fully busy periods and one for partially busy periods. It is shown that these distributions are given as positive solutions of vector equations where Q m is the lossy generator governing the queueing process with at least m customers and γ m is its decay parameter. We first develop the method to determine γ m , and then we obtain explicit expressions for the QS distributions. It turns out that the QS distribution for partially busy periods has a matrix-geometric structure in some cases. By investigating the asymptotic behaviors of these distributions, it is also shown that the QS distributions have longer tails than the stationary distribution

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