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Some moment results for certain tandem and multiple-server queues

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Barry Wolfson*
Affiliation:
Wellesley College
*
Postal address: Department of Computer Science, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA 02181, USA.

Abstract

It is known that for a GI/G/1 queue, if the interarrival time has finite first moment, then the (k + 1)th moment of the service time is finite if the kth moment of the stationary workload is finite. This result is extended to certain tandem and multiple-server queues.

Type
Research Papers
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1984 

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