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A proof of simple insensitive bounds for a pure overflow system

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Nico M. Van Dijk*
Affiliation:
Twente University
*
Present address: Faculty of Economical Sciences and Econometrics, Free University, P.O. Box 7161, 1007 MC Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Abstract

In [1], [4] and [6] simple and intuitively obvious bounds were suggested for various overflow systems and claimed to be insensitive, that is to be valid also in the non-exponential case. This insensitivity was formalized in [4] and [6] when the service distributions have a monotone failure rate. This technical note provides another proof which for the case of a pure overflow system with one customer class extends the insensitivity to the general case.

Type
Research Papers
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1989 

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