We consider an open tandem queueing network with population constraint and constant service times. The total number of customers that may be present in the network can not exceed a given value Ii'. Customers arriving at the queueing network when there are more than I< customers are forced to wait in an external queue. The arrival process to the queueing network is assumed to be arbitrary.We show that this queueing network can be transformed into a simple network involving only two nodes. We obtain an upper and lower bound on the mean waiting time. Validations against simulation data establish the tightness of these bounds.KEY WORDS: open queueing network, population constraint, constant service times, semaphore queue. 189 0-8186-6902-0/95 $4.00 Q 1995 IEEE