Definition
On arrival at the fork point, a job is split into N sub-jobs which are served by each of the N servers. After service, sub-job wait until all other sub-jobs have also been processed. The sub-jobs are then rejoined and leave the system.
For the forkâjoin queue to be stable the input rate must be strictly less than sum of the service rates at the service nodes.
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