Untold Horrors of the Waiting Room: What the Equilibrium Distribution Will Never Tell About the Queue-Length Process

DOI10.1287/mnsc.29.4.395zbMath0517.60092OpenAlexW2157103817WikidataQ97819495 ScholiaQ97819495MaRDI QIDQ3666016

Ward Whitt

Publication date: 1983

Published in: Management Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.29.4.395

zbMATH Keywords

relaxation timebusy periodequilibrium distributioncovariance-structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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