DELAY IN A TANDEM QUEUEING MODEL WITH MOBILE QUEUES: AN ANALYTICAL APPROXIMATION.

In this paper, we analyze the end-to-end delay performance of a tandem queueing system with mobile queues. Due to state-space explosion, there is no hope for a numerical exact analysis for the joint-queue-length distribution. For this reason, we present an analytical approximation that is based on queue-length analysis. Through extensive numerical validation, we find that the queue-length approximation exhibits excellent performance for light traffic load. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]