Monotonicity and error bounds for networks of Erlang loss queues.

Boucherie, Richard; Dijk, Nico

Networks of Erlang loss queues naturally arise when modelling finite communication systems without delays, among which, most notably are Performance measures of interest such as loss probabilities or throughputs can be obtained from the steady state distribution. However, while this steady state distribution has a closed product form expression in the first case (loss networks), it does not have one in the second case due to blocked (and lost) handovers. Product form approximations are therefore suggested. These approximations are obtained by a combined modification of both the state space (by a hypercubic expansion) and the transition rates (by extra redial rates). It will be shown that these product form approximations lead to The proofs of these results rely upon both monotonicity results and an analytic error bound method as based on Markov reward theory. This combination and its technicalities are of interest by themselves. The technical conditions are worked out and verified for two specific applications: The results are of practical interest for computational simplifications and, particularly, to guarantee that blocking probabilities do not exceed a given threshold such as for network dimensioning.

MONOTONIC functions; REAL variables; OPERATOR theory; DISTRIBUTION (Probability theory); STATISTICAL correlation; GRAPHIC methods in statistics

Queueing Systems, 2009, Vol 62, Issue 1/2, p159

0257-0130

Academic Journal

10.1007/s11134-009-9118-9