Jackson's theorem (queueing theory)

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This template must be substituted. Replace {{Requested move ...}} with {{subst:Requested move ...}}. Jackson's theorem is the first significant development in the theory of networks of queues. It assumes an open queueing network of single-server queues with the following characteristics:

  • M = # of queues in the system, not counting queue 0 which represents the outside world
  • = service rate at queue
  • = total rate at which jobs arrive at queue
  • utilization of the service at queue
  • =# of jobs in queue i at time t
  • = the system state at time t
  • Arrivals from the outside world are Poisson. All queues have exponential service time distributions.

Production form of Jackson's network

 
(where  )

See also