par Da Silva Soares, Ana ;Latouche, Guy
Référence International Journal of Simulation. Systems, Science and Technology, 6, 1-2, page (4-12)
Publication Publié, 2005
Article révisé par les pairs
Résumé : Fluid queues consist of a buffer or reservoir controlled by a continuous-time Markov process evolving in the background. The content of the fluid buffer is a nonnegative real number, usually called the level, and the state of the underlying Markov process is called the phase. The renewal approach to fluid queues, originally developed by Ramaswami, is very efficient in that it allows for the analysis of different systems by a common set of tools. This is illustrated here with feedback fluid queues, that is, systems for which the rules of evolution of the phase process change when the buffer is either empty or full.