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Waiting-Time Percentiles in the Multi-server Mx/G/c Queue with Batch Arrivals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2009

A. M. Eikeboom  and
H. C. Tijms
A. M. Eikeboom
Affiliation:
Department of Actuarial Sciences and EconometricsVrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
H. C. Tijms
Affiliation:
Department of Actuarial Sciences and EconometricsVrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Abstract

This paper deals with the MX/G/c queue. Using analytical results for the special cases of the MX/M/c queue and the MX/D/c queue, a two-moment approximation is proposed for the waiting-time percentiles in the general case. This approximation is based on a linear interpolation with respect to the squared coefficient of variation of the service time distribution. Validation experiments indicate that this approximation performs quite well for practical purposes. In particular, the practically important percentiles in the tail of the waiting-time distribution are approximated extremely well.

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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , January 1987 , pp. 75 - 96
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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