| Article ID: | iaor19982480 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 88 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Start Page Number: | 592 |
| End Page Number: | 598 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 1996 |
| Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
| Authors: | Tijms Henk C., Gouweleeuw Frank N. |
A practically important problem is the design of finite buffers in order to achieve a prespecified loss probability. For the class of multi-server queues with batch Poisson input this paper proposes a simple approximation using only the first two moments of the service time. Numerical investigations indicate an excellent performance of the approximation.