First-passage-time densities and avoiding probabilities for birth-and-death processes with symmetric sample paths

DOI10.1239/JAP/1032192854zbMath0915.60075OpenAlexW2150401723MaRDI QIDQ4215684

Antonio Di Crescenzo

Publication date: 29 November 1998

Published in: Journal of Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1239/jap/1032192854

zbMATH Keywords

reflectionabsorptionfirst passage timespatial symmetryM/M/1 queuebirth and death processavoiding transition probabilities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of branching processes (60J85) Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80) Applications of queueing theory (congestion, allocation, storage, traffic, etc.) (60K30)

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