| Article ID: | iaor19992674 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 46 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 149 |
| End Page Number: | 154 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1998 |
| Journal: | Operations Research |
| Authors: | Tijms Henk C., Gouweleeuw Frank N. |
| Keywords: | communication |
Discrete-time queueing systems are frequently encountered in telecommunication networks. These systems usually involve finite buffers. The purpose of this paper is to present a generally applicable method to compute the loss probability in discrete-time finite-buffer queues by using only the state probabilities in the corresponding infinite-buffer queue.