Using a birth‐and‐death process to estimate the steady‐state distribution of a periodic queue

DOI10.1002/nav.21672zbMath1411.90093OpenAlexW2276622541MaRDI QIDQ4632870

James Dong, Ward Whitt

Publication date: 2 May 2019

Published in: Naval Research Logistics (NRL) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/nav.21672

zbMATH Keywords

periodic queuesbirth-and-death processesestimating steady-state distributionsfitting models to datagrey-box stochastic model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Markov processes: estimation; hidden Markov models (62M05) Queueing theory (aspects of probability theory) (60K25) Queues and service in operations research (90B22) Applications of continuous-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces (60J28)

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