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A generalisation of erlang's formulas in queueing theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

D. Mejzler
D. Mejzler*
Affiliation:
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Extract

We follow the terminology of Khintchine's monograph [4].

Let us consider a random stream of calls entering a service system which consists of n lines. The service durations are assumed to be identically distributed random variables which are independent both of each other and of the course of the incoming stream.

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Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , April 1968 , pp. 143 - 157
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Copyright © Sheffield: Applied Probability Trust 

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