| Article ID: | iaor1991341 |
| Country: | India |
| Volume: | 27 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Start Page Number: | 171 |
| End Page Number: | 175 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 1990 |
| Journal: | OPSEARCH |
| Authors: | Sharma O.P., Nair N.S.K. |
| Keywords: | queues: theory |
This paper studies the transient behaviour of a simple birth and death model. Analytic expression for the transient state probabilities are obtained in terms of the eigenvalues of a tridiagonal matrix.