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We study queues in tandem with customer deadlines and retrials. We first consider a 2-queue Markovian system with blocking at the second queue, analyze it, and derive its stability condition. We then study a non-Markovian setting and derive the stability condition for an approximating diffusion, showing its similarity to the former condition. In the Markovian setting, we use probability generating functions and matrix analytic techniques. In the diffusion setting, we consider expectations of the first hitting times of compact sets.
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The authors would like to thank Jim Dai for bringing this problem to their attention. We thank Efrat Perel for providing the details of Theorem 5.1.
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Reed, J., Yechiali, U. Queues in tandem with customer deadlines and retrials. Queueing Syst 73, 1–34 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11134-012-9290-1
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