| Article ID: | iaor20002512 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 26 |
| Issue: | 3/4 |
| Start Page Number: | 255 |
| End Page Number: | 267 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 1997 |
| Journal: | Queueing Systems |
| Authors: | Mohanty S.G., Bohm W., Krinik A. |
| Keywords: | M/M/c queues |
In this paper we present a combinatorial technique which allows the derivation of the transition functions of general birth–death processes. This method provides a flexible tool for the transient analysis of Markovian queueing systems with state dependent transition rates, like