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The general bulk queue as a matrix factorisation problem of the Wiener-Hopf type. Part I.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

John Dagsvik*
Affiliation:
Central Bureau of Statistics, Oslo

Abstract

The relationship between the Wiener-Hopf factorisation of matrices and the solution of systems of certain operator equations is discussed in an algebraic setting. It is shown that the study of the waiting time process of the nth arriving group of the general single server bulk queue leads to equations of that type. This system of equations may be considered as an extension of Lindley's waiting-time equation.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1975 

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