| Article ID: | iaor1990318 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 40 |
| Issue: | 12 |
| Start Page Number: | 1153 |
| End Page Number: | 1155 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 1989 |
| Journal: | Journal of the Operational Research Society |
| Authors: | Yunus M. Naim |
An exact expression for the transient expectation of traffic overflowing from an Erlang loss system with stationary offered traffic is presented. Its derivation is obtained by using an exact expression for the transient blocking probability. This exact expectation could be useful in approximating the expectation of real-life overflow traffic.