The reversibility of cyclic queues

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.

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Published inOperations research letters Vol. 11; no. 4; pp. 233 - 241
Main Authors Liu, Xiao-Gao, Buzacott, John A
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 01.05.1992
Elsevier
Subjects
Applied sciences
cyclic queues
Exact sciences and technology
Operational research and scientific management
Operational research. Management science
production line reversibility
Queuing theory. Traffic theory
throughput analysis
production line reversibility
cyclic queues
throughput analysis
Blocking
Reversibility
Production line
Production rate
Cyclic
Queue
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0167-6377
1872-7468
DOI:10.1016/0167-6377(92)90030-7