RECAL - A NEW EFFICIENT ALGORITHM FOR THE EXACT ANALYSIS OF MULTIPLE-CHAIN CLOSED QUEUEING NETWORKS A.E. Conway and N.D. Georganas University of Ottawa Ottawa, Ontario Canada ABSTRACT RECAL, a Recursion by Chain Algorithm for computing the mean performance measures of product-form multiple-chain closed queueing networks, is presented. It is based on a new recursive expression which relates the normalization constant of a network with r closed routing chains to those of a set of networks having (r-l) chains. It relies on the artifice of breaking down each chain into constituent sub-chains that each have a population of one. The time and space requirements of the algorithm are shown to be polynomial in the number of chains. When the network contains many routing chains the more efficient proposed algorithm is substantially than the convolution or mean value analysis algorithms. The algorithm therefore extends the range of queueing networks which can be analyzed efficiently by exact means. A numerical example is given. Permission to copy without fee all or part of this material is granted provided that the copies are not made or distributed for direct commercial advantage, the ACM copyright notice and the title of the publication and its date appear, and notice is given that copying is by permission of the Association for Computing Machinery. To copy otherwise, or to republish, requires a fee and/or specific permission. 0 1985 ACM 0-89791-169-5/85/007/CQl4 $00.75
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