| Article ID: | iaor1988779 |
| Country: | Israel |
| Volume: | 25 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 224 |
| End Page Number: | 227 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 1988 |
| Journal: | Journal of Applied Probability |
| Authors: | Suoronos Antony, Green Linda |
The authors consider single-server loss systems with exponential service times and non-stationary Poisson input. They prove that if the arrival rate is given by a periodic function, the proportion of lost customers is convex increasing in the amplitude.