Treffer: General batch service disciplines - A product-form batch processing network with customer coalescence.

Abstract. A new batch service discipline is introduced that allows for customers of different classes to leave together in one batch. This so-called general batch service discipline is discussed for servers with signals and class independent or class-dependent exponential service times. The equilibrium distribution and the associated traffic equations are calculated and it is shown that such servers are quasi-reversible. This property allows to model a network of servers with general batch service discipline that possesses a product form equilibrium. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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