Sharp and simple bounds for the Erlang delay and loss formulae

DOI10.1007/s11134-009-9152-7zbMath1182.90024MaRDI QIDQ2268464

Arie Harel

Publication date: 8 March 2010

Published in: Queueing Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11134-009-9152-7

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

60E15: Inequalities; stochastic orderings

90B50: Management decision making, including multiple objectives

60K25: Queueing theory (aspects of probability theory)

90B22: Queues and service in operations research

90B30: Production models

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