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Finiteness of moments of partial busy periods for M/G/C queues

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Saeed Ghahramani*
Affiliation:
Towson State University
*
Postal address: Department of Mathematics, Towson State University, Towson, MD 21204, USA.

Abstract

Conditions for finiteness of moments of the following quantities have been found: the duration of a busy period of an Μ /G/∞ system; the duration of a partial busy period of an M/G/C loss system, and the duration of a partial busy period of an M/G/C queue.

Type
Short Communications
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1986 

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