Efficient simulation of non-Poisson non-stationary point processes to study queueing approximations

DOI10.1016/j.spl.2015.11.018zbMath1382.60118MaRDI QIDQ899666

Ward Whitt, Ni Ma

Publication date: 30 December 2015

Published in: Statistics \& Probability Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spl.2015.11.018

zbMATH Keywords

simulation; inverse function; service system; nonstationary point process; queues with time-varying arrival rates; time-varying arrival rate

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

60K25: Queueing theory (aspects of probability theory)

60G55: Point processes (e.g., Poisson, Cox, Hawkes processes)

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