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How Long Might We Wait at Random?

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Abstract

In discrete time, customers arrive at random. Each waits until one of three servers is available; each thereafter departs at random. We seek the distribution of maximum line length of idle customers. Algebraic expressions obtained for the two-server scenario do not appear feasible here. We also review well-known distributional results for maximum wait time associated with an M/M/1 queue and speculate about their generalization.

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@article{arxiv.1906.07021,
  title  = {How Long Might We Wait at Random?},
  author = {Steven Finch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.07021},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

16 pages, 9 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap [in Section 1] with arXiv:1902.09272

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