| 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.