ANALYZING DISCRETE-TIME GI[X]/D-MSP/1/∞ QUEUEING SYSTEM USING RG-FACTORIZATION

Abstract

This paper analyzes an infinite-buffer single-server queueing system wherein customers arrive in batches of random size according to a discrete-time renewal process. The customers are served one at a time under discrete-time Markovian service process. Based on the censoring technique, the UL-type RG-factorization for the Toeplitz type block-structured Markov chain is used to obtain the prearrival epoch probabilities. The random epoch probabilities are obtained with the help of classical principle based on Markov renewal theory. The system-length distributions at outside observer’s, intermediate and post-departure epochs are obtained by making relations among various time epochs. The analysis of waiting-time distribution measured in slots of an arbitrary customer in an arrival batch has also been investigated. In order to unify the results of both discrete-time and its continuous-time counterpart, we give a brief demonstration to get the continuous-time results from those of the discrete-time ones. A variety of numerical results are provided to illustrate the effect of model parameters on the performance measures.