TANCREZ, Jean-Sébastien; CHEVALIER, Philippe; SEMAL, Pierre - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2008
In this paper, we present a bounding methodology that allows to compute a tight lower bound on the cycle time of fork--join queueing networks with blocking and with general service time distributions. The methodology relies on two ideas. First, probability masses fitting (PMF) discretizes the...