The symmetric longest queue system

Communications in Statistics. Part C: Stochastic Models

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 105-120

  Van Houtum, Geert Jan ^a   Adan, Ivo ^b   Van Der Wal, Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bounds; Longest queue; Markov chain; Performance analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007303910     PISSN: 08820287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15326349708807416     Document Type: Article

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