Article ID: | iaor20041782 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 20 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 526 |
End Page Number: | 528 |
Publication Date: | Aug 1995 |
Journal: | Mathematics of Operations Research |
Authors: | Pearce C.E.M., Pecaric J.E. |
An integral inequality for convex functions is deduced from Jensen's inequality. This gives as a special case a commonly-used inequality in the analysis of call congestion in queueing theory which has previously been derived only by rather longer ad hoc procedures.