An analysis of the modified offered-load approximation for the nonstationary Erlang loss model

DOI10.1214/AOAP/1177004908MaRDI QIDQ1345587zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors William A. Massey, Ward Whitt

Publication date 14 May 1995

Published in The Annals of Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1214/aoap/1177004908

zbMATH Keywords

stochastic dominancenonstationary queuesperformance analysisphase-type serviceinfinite server queuesErlang blocking formulanonstationary Erlang loss modeltime-ordered exponentialstraffic theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Queues and service in operations research (90B22) Queueing theory (aspects of probability theory) (60K25) Continuous-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces (60J27)

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