Block-structured supermarket models (Q503021)

The authors propose supermarket model with non-Poisson inputs and non-exponential service times. They provide the PHase-type (PH) structure for the operate semigroup for the Markovian Arrival Processes inputs and to the PH service times. They also propose a generalized matrix-analytic method both for computing the fixed point and for analyzing the performance measures of their supermarket model. The paper contains also some numerical examples.