Scale functions of levy processes and busy periods of finite-capacity M/GI/1 queues

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1145-1156

  Dube, Parijat ^a,d   Guillemin, Fabrice ^b   Mazumdar, Ravi R ^c  

^a IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

^b ORANGE LABS   (France)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Busy period; Laplace transform; Levy process; On off input; Queue; Scale function

Indexed keywords

EID: 14644404285     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/jap/1101840559     Document Type: Article

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