On the convergence to stationarity of the many-server Poisson queue

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 546-557

  Stadje, Wolfgang ^b   Parthasarathy, P R ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Many server poisson queue; Speed of convergence; Stationarity; Transient probabilities

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033147981     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021900200017307     Document Type: Article

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