The Queue with Server of Walking Type and Its Applications to Computer System Modelling

The following sections are included:

• Introduction

• The queue with server of walking type with Poisson arrivals, and the M/G/1 queue

  • The embedded Markov chain

  • The stationary queue length process

• Evaluation of secondary memory device performance

  • Application to a paging drum model

  • Solid-state secondary memory devices

• Analysis of multiplexed data communication systems

  • Best and worst case analysis for the buffer queues

  • Approximate analysis of buffer queue length

• References