Stability analysis of \(\mathrm{GI}/\mathrm{GI}/c/K\) retrial queue with constant retrial rate (Q2247979)

Sufficient stability conditions of a finite buffer capacity \(\mathrm{GI}/\mathrm{GI}/c/K\)-type retrial queueing system with constant retrial rate are obtained. The (primary) queue has \(c\) identical servers and a buffer for at most \(K-c\) waiting jobs. The original primary jobs arrive to the system according to a renewal process, and the jobs have the i.i.d. service times. Service time distribution belongs to a broad class of distributions satisfying a monotonicity property. An arriving job joins the orbit queue if the primary queue is full. The head of the line job in the orbit queue retries to enter the primary queue after an exponentially distributed time independent of the length of the orbit queue. Telephone exchange systems, medium access protocols, optical networks with near-zero buffering and TCP short-file transfers are some telecommunication applications of this queueing system. The proposed model covers the known cases and a number of new particular models with closed-form stability conditions. The analysis is based on a regenerative approach, and stability conditions have a clear probabilistic interpretation.