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On the distribution of queueing times

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Walter L. Smith
Walter L. Smith
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Statistical Laboratory Cambridge
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The hypothetical model that we shall be considering in this paper is referred to as the single-server queue, and the details of this model are given in a recent paper by Lindley(5). The present treatment involves exactly the same assumptions as Lindley has given already, and we refer to his paper for a rigorous statement of them. Briefly, we shall be assuming general independent service times and general independent input or arrival times. Theoretical studies of the single-server queue are capable of wide applications, many of which are described in a paper by Kendall (4) and in the discussion to that paper.

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 49 , Issue 3 , July 1953 , pp. 449 - 461
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1953

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