The Transient Behavior of the M/M/s Queue, with Implications for Steady-State Simulation

DOI10.1287/opre.33.2.378zbMath0567.60090OpenAlexW1980005324MaRDI QIDQ3683317

Averill M. Law, W. David Kelton

Publication date: 1985

Published in: Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.33.2.378

zbMATH Keywords

transient behaviorinfluence of initial conditionsconvergence of the expected delays to steady-state values

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Queueing theory (aspects of probability theory) (60K25) Queues and service in operations research (90B22)

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