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On the busy period of discrete-time queues

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

T. Gergely
Affiliation:
Central Research Institute for Physics, Budapest
T. L. Török
Affiliation:
Central Research Institute for Physics, Budapest

Abstract

This paper obtains the probability and the expectation of the length of the busy and idle periods in a discrete-time service system by means of two-component Markov chains and their first passage times. The M/G/1 model is discussed as a special case.

Type
Short Communications
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1974 

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