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An upper bound for multi-channel queues

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Ronald W. Wolff
Ronald W. Wolff*
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley
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Abstract

Moments of the delay distribution and other measures of performance for a multi-channel queue are shown to be bounded above by corresponding quantities for one or a collection of single-channel queues.

Keywords

UPPER BOUNDMULTI-CHANNEL OR SERVERQUEUE

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Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , December 1977 , pp. 884 - 888
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1977 

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Footnotes

This research was completed while the author was a visiting consultant to the Operations Research Projects Department, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Holmdel, New Jersey.

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