Some remarks on discrete-time buffers with correlated arrivals (Q1081982)

A discrete-time buffer system with infinite waiting room, one single output channel and synchronous transmission mode is treated. The arrivals are correlated and a first order Markov process is used to describe this correlation. A set of equations describing the behavior of such a system is derived. In general, these cannot be solved easily; in some interesting special cases, however, explicit expressions for the probability generating function of the buffer occupancy (in stochastic equilibrium) are obtained. Also a mean value analysis of buffer behavior that applies for a large class of arrival processes is presented.