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On the single-server queue with non-homogeneous Poisson input and general service time

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

A. M. Hasofer
A. M. Hasofer*
Affiliation:
University of Tasmania
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In this paper, a single-server queue with non-homogeneous Poisson input and general service time is considered. Particular attention is given to the case where the parameter of the Poisson input λ(t) is a periodic function of the time. The approach is an extension of the work of Takács and Reich . The main result of the investigation is that under certain conditions on the distribution of the service time, the form of the function λ(t) and the distribution of the waiting time at t = 0, the probability of a server being idle P0 and the Laplace transform Ω of the waiting time are both asymptotically periodic in t. Putting where b(t) is a periodic function of time, it is shown that both Po and Ω can be expanded in a power series in z, and a method for calculating explicitly the asymptotic values of the leading terms is obtained.

In many practical queueing problems, it is expected that the probability of arrivals will vary periodically. For example, in restaurants or at servicestations arrivals are more probable at rush hours than at slack periods, and rush hours are repeated day after day

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Research Papers
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Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , December 1964 , pp. 369 - 384
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Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 

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