Fluid queues and mountain processes

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 407-427

  Boxma, O J ^a,b   Perry, D ^c   Van Der Duyn Schouten, F A ^b,d  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b CWI   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^d TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARKOV PROCESSES;

BUFFER CONTENT DISTRIBUTION; BUFFER CONTENTS; BUSY PERIOD; EXACT RESULTS; FLUID QUEUE; LEVEL CROSSING THEORY; PERIOD DISTRIBUTIONS; SEMI MARKOV PROCESS;

QUEUEING THEORY;

EID: 0000927942     PISSN: 02699648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0269964899134028     Document Type: Article

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