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G-NETWORKS OF UNRELIABLE NODES
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 May 2016
Abstract
We study G-networks with positive and negative customers and signals. We consider two types of signals: they can make a subnetwork of queues operational or down. As signals are sent by queues after a customer service completion, one can model the availability of a sub-network of queues controlled by another network of queues. We prove that under classical assumptions for G-networks and assumptions on the rerouting probabilities when a subnetwork is not operational, the steady-state distribution, if it exists, has a product form steady state distribution. Some examples are given.
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- Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences , Volume 30 , Issue 3: Erol Gelenbe's 70th Birthday , July 2016 , pp. 361 - 378
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