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An extension of Erlang's formulas which distinguishes individual servers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Jan M. Chaiken
Affiliation:
New York City — Rand Institute
Edward Ignall
Affiliation:
Columbia University, New York

Abstract

For a particular kind of finite-server loss system in which the number and identity of servers depends on the type of the arriving call and on the state of the system, the limits of the state probabilities (as t → ∞) are found for an arbitrary service-time distribution.

Type
Short Communications
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1972 

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