A reversible Erlang loss system with multitype customers and multitype servers

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Publication date 2010
Journal Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume | Issue number 24 | 4
Pages (from-to) 536-548
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  • Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) - Amsterdam School of Economics Research Institute (ASE-RI)
Abstract We consider a memoryless Erlang loss system with servers S = {1, …, J}, and with customer types C = {1, …, I}. Servers are multitype, so that server j can serve a subset of customer types C(j). We show that the probabilities of assigning arriving customers to idle servers can be chosen in such a way that the Markov process describing the system is reversible, with a simple product form stationary distribution. Furthermore, the system is insensitive; these properties are preserved for general service time distributions.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269964810000161
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