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The generalised state-dependent queue: the busy period Erlangian

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

B. W. Conolly*
Affiliation:
SACLANT ASW Research Centre, La Spezia, Italy
*
Now at Chelsea College University of London.

Abstract

A continued fraction representation is presented of the Laplace transform of the generating function of the fundamental joint probability and density of busy period length measured in customers served and duration in time. The setting is the single server Erlang queueing system where the parameters of negative exponentially distributed arrival and service times have a general dependence on instantaneous system state.

Type
Short Communications
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1974 

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