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Combinatorial and analytic methods in the theory of queues

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Lajos Takács
Lajos Takács*
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Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
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Abstract

This paper is a survey of the solutions of various first-passage time problems in the theory of queues.

Keywords

QUEUEING PROCESSESFIRST-PASSAGE TIME PROBLEMSBUSY PERIODSCOMBINATORIAL METHODSANALYTIC METHODS

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Advances in Applied Probability , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , September 1975, pp. 607 - 635
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Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1975 

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