DELAY-TIME DISTRIBUTIONS AND ADJUSTED TRANSFER RATES FOR JACKSON NETWORKS

For the classical queuing networks named after Jackson closed-form exp ressions for the steady-state travel time, distribution along a given path can be obtained, in general, only for so-called overtake-free pat hs. The paper summarizes the corresponding results and then proceeds t o show how they are affected by a method for representing background t raffic, called the method of adjusted transfer rates. Examples from th e telecommunication world are given.