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Exponential expansion for the tail of the waiting-time probability in the single-server queue with batch arrivals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

J. C. W. Van Ommeren*
Affiliation:
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
*
Postal address: Operations Research Group, Dept. of Econometrics, Vrije Universiteit, Postbus 7161, 1007 MC Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Abstract

This paper deals with the single-server queue with batch arrivals. We show that under suitable conditions the waiting-time distribution of an individual customer has an asymptotically exponential expansion. Computationally useful characterizations of the amplitude factor and the decay parameter are given for the practically important case in which the interarrival time and the service time have phase-type distributions.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1988 

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