The paper considers various types of queues arising in queuing systems. The concept of an N-th order queue is introduced; the calculation algorithm of the first and second moments of main discrete and continuous random variables characterizing behavior of higher orders queues in queuing systems of the mixed type is presented.
AMS Subject Classification: 60K25Key Words: physical queue, real queue, quality of service (QoS), queuing system (QS)
Main DefinitionsAn N-th order queue will be called the queue calculated in case when there are m+N claims in the system as minimum, and N of them are in the memory. Such a queue exists if a newly arrived claim finds a minimum N claims waiting for service before this one.At N=0 we have a physical queue which is explicitly studied in the work [7]. In the system of GPSS World simulation modeling this characteristic has the name "a queue without zero inputs".At N=1 we have the so-called real queue; at N>1 we have queues of higher orders.