Hyperexponential.svg


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English: Diagram showing queueing system equivalent of a hyperexponential distribution
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Author Gareth Jones

This image is inspired by Figure 7.2 on p. 260 of Peter G. Harrison and Naresh M. Patel's Performance Modelling of Communication Networks and Computer Architectures (1993) published by Addison-Wesley ISBN 0-201-54419-9 .

Code used to create this image

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb,pgf,tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows,automata}
\begin{document}

\begin{tikzpicture}[->,>=stealth',shorten >=1pt,auto,node distance=1.5cm,semithick]
  \tikzstyle{every state}=[fill=white,draw=black,text=black,minimum size=1.1cm]

  \node (A) {};
  \node[state] (A2) [right of=A] {$\lambda_1$};
  \node (A3) [right of=A2] {};

  \node (B) [below of=A] {};
  \node[state] (B2) [right of=B] {$\lambda_2$};
  \node (B3) [right of=B2] {};

  \node (C) [below of=B] {};
  \node (C2) [right of=C] {\vdots};
  \node (C3) [right of=C2] {};

  \node (D) [below of=C] {};
  \node[state] (D2) [right of=D] {$\lambda_n$};
  \node (D3) [right of=D2] {};

  \node (S) [left of=C] {start};
  \node (E) [right of=C3] {end};

  \path[-] (A.center) edge node {$p_1$} (A2);
  \path[-] (B.center) edge node {$p_2$} (B2);
  \path[-] (D.center) edge node {$p_n$} (D2);

  \path[-] (A2) edge node {} (A3.center);
  \path[-] (B2) edge node {} (B3.center);
  \path[-] (D2) edge node {} (D3.center);

  \path[-] (A.center) edge node {} (D.center);
  \path[-] (A3.center) edge node {} (D3.center);

  \path (S) edge node {} (C.center);
  \path (C3.center) edge node {} (E);

\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

Then converted using pdf2svg and inkscape.

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30 October 2013