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Distribution of the number of customers served in an M/G/1 retrial queue

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

M. J. Lopez-Herrero*
Affiliation:
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
*
Postal address: Escuela de Estadistica, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain. Email address: [email protected]

Abstract

We present a recursive method of computation for the probability that at most k customers were served during the busy period of an M/G/1 retrial queue.

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Type
Short Communications
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 2002 

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