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Stochastic monotonicity in general queueing networks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

J. George Shanthikumar*
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley
David D. Yao*
Affiliation:
Harvard University
*
Postal address: School of Business Administration, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
∗∗ Postal address: Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

Abstract

We develop a representation for general queueing networks, and study some stochastic monotonicity properties that have been previously established in Jackson networks (e.g. Shanthikumar and Yao (1986), (1987)).

Type
Short Communications
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1989 

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