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Relations for the workload of the GI/G/s queue

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

Per Hokstad*
Affiliation:
The Norwegian Institute of Technology
*
Present address: SINTEF, Division 18, N7034 Trondheim-NTH, Norway.

Abstract

A relation between the distributions of the workload of an arbitrary server and the waiting time is obtained for a GI/G/s queue in steady state. An expression for the total workload of the system (total unprocessed work) is also found. Several well-known results emerge as special cases. Various useful relations, for instance bounds and approximations for the mean waiting time, are also given.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1985 

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