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Another martingale bound on the waiting-time distribution in GI/G/1 queues

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Harry H. Tan*
Affiliation:
Princeton University
*
Postal address: Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Engineering Quadrangle, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. 08540, U.S.A.

Abstract

A new upper bound on the stationary waiting-time distribution of a GI/G/1 queue is derived following Kingman's martingale approach. This bound is generally stronger than Kingman's upper bound and is sometimes stronger than an upper bound derived by Ross.

Type
Short Communications
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1979 

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Footnotes

Research supported by the U. S. National Science Foundation under grants GK-42080 and ENG 76–21827.

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