Sampling at subexponential times, with queueing applications

Stochastic Processes and their Applications

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 265-286

  Asmussen, S ^a   Klüppelberg, Claudia ^b   Sigman, Karl ^c  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Busy period; Independent sampling; Laplace's method; Large deviations; Little's law; Markov additive process; Poisson process; Random walk; Regular variation; Subexponential distribution; Vacation model; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033074450     PISSN: 03044149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4149(98)00064-7     Document Type: Article

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