Steady-state distribution of the buffer content for M/G/∞ input fluid queues

Bernoulli

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 191-210

  Resnick, Sidney ^a   Samorodnitsky, Gennady ^a  

^a Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluid queue; Heavy tails; Large deviations; Long range dependence; M g oo queue; Performance of a queue; Random walk; Steady state distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042750640     PISSN: 13507265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3318735     Document Type: Article

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