Application of the Diffusion Approximation to Queueing Networks I: Equilibrium Queue Distributions

Journal of the ACM (JACM)

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1974, Pages 316-328

  Kobayashi, Hisashi ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

cyclic queue model; diffusion approximation; diffusion equation; diffusion process; general distribution; queue size distribution; queueing network model

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY;

EID: 0016050049     PISSN: 00045411     EISSN: 1557735X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/321812.321827     Document Type: Article

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