Article ID: | iaor1988832 |
Country: | Israel |
Volume: | 25 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 432 |
End Page Number: | 436 |
Publication Date: | Jun 1988 |
Journal: | Journal of Applied Probability |
Authors: | Wolff Ronald W. |
Keywords: | queues: theory |
The familiar limiting distributions of excess, age, and spread are derived on sample paths, where these distributions are fractions of time. Similar results are obtained for the distribution of remaining service at a queue. For stochastic processes, where specified limits exist as finite constants with probability 1, the derived sample-path results are shown to imply that the same limiting distributions hold, where in a stochastic setting, these distributions may be defined in a more conventional way.