International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 2003 (2003), Issue 24, Pages 1509-1528
doi:10.1155/S0161171203203203

Fluid queues driven by a discouraged arrivals queue

P. R. Parthasarathy and K. V. Vijayashree

Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras 600 036, Chennai, India

Received 20 March 2002

Copyright © 2003 P. R. Parthasarathy and K. V. Vijayashree. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

We consider a fluid queue driven by a discouraged arrivals queue and obtain explicit expressions for the stationary distribution function of the buffer content in terms of confluent hypergeometric functions. We compare it with a fluid queue driven by an infinite server queue. Numerical results are presented to compare the behaviour of the buffer content distributions for both these models.