Strong Convexity Results for Queueing Systems

DOI10.1287/OPRE.35.3.405MaRDI QIDQ3776350zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Arie Harel, Paul Zipkin

Publication date 1987

Published in Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.35.3.405

zbMATH Keywords

characteristic functionsconvex functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Queueing theory (aspects of probability theory) (60K25) Performance evaluation, queueing, and scheduling in the context of computer systems (68M20) Queues and service in operations research (90B22)

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