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M/M/$c$ Queues and the Poisson Clumping Heuristic

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Abstract

In continuous time, customers arrive at random. Each waits until one of cc servers is available; each thereafter departs at random. The distribution of maximum line length of idle customers was studied over 25 years ago. We revisit two good approximations of this, employing a discrete Gumbel formulation and detailed graphics to describe simulation outcomes.

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@article{arxiv.1904.04054,
  title  = {M/M/$c$ Queues and the Poisson Clumping Heuristic},
  author = {Steven Finch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.04054},
  year   = {2019}
}

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12 pages, 10 figures

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