On the existence of moments for the busy period in a single-server queue

Mathematics of Operations Research

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 592-601

  Foss, S ^a   Sapozhnikov, A ^a,b  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NOVOSIBIRSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Busy period; First passage time; Moments; Random walk; Single server queue

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; MARKOV PROCESSES; QUEUEING THEORY; THEOREM PROVING;

BUSY PERIOD; EXPONENTIAL MOMENTS; FIRST PASSAGE TIME; RANDOM WALK; SINGLE SERVER QUEUE;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 5544290529     PISSN: 0364765X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/moor.1030.0074     Document Type: Article

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