An Exponentialization Procedure for General FMS Network of Queues with Limited Buffer

In this paper we develop an exponentialization procedure for the modelling of open FMS networks with general processing time at each station and limited buffer size. By imposing a reasonable assumption on the solution set, the nonlinear equation system for the exponentialization procedure is formulated as a variational inequality problem and the solution existence is examined. The efficient algorithm for the nonlinear equation system is developed using linearized Jacobi approximation method.