Article ID: | iaor1999141 |
Country: | India |
Volume: | 34 |
Issue: | 4 |
Start Page Number: | 259 |
End Page Number: | 276 |
Publication Date: | Dec 1997 |
Journal: | OPSEARCH |
Authors: | Scott Meckinley, Gray William J., Wang Patrick P. |
Keywords: | queues: theory |
This paper concerns the transient behaviour of a finite state-dependent queue. Explicit expressions for several important distribution functions are obtained by using a simple but efficient method. They are the distribution of the number of customers blocked (lost), the distribution of the number of times in which the system is blocked during an arbitrary time interval (0,