The DR-A approximation analyzes the mean delay of
class jobs in an M/PH/
queue with
priority classes by
aggregating all the higher priority classes, as in the MK-N
approximation. By contrast to MK-N, the job size distribution of the
aggregated class is approximated with a PH distribution by
matching the first three moments of the distribution.
Recently, an extension of MK-N to PH job size distributions
(hyperexponential distributions, in particular) is also
proposed, independently, by Sleptchenko et. al. [194]
(we propose DR-A in [204]).)