The first Erlang century-and the next

Queueing Systems

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 3-12

  Kingman, J F C ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

History of queueing theory; Martingales; Multi server queues; Poisson arrivals; Teletraffic

Indexed keywords

APPLIED PROBABILITY; MARTINGALES; MULTI-SERVER QUEUE; OPERATIONAL RESEARCH; POISSON ARRIVALS; TELETRAFFIC; UNSOLVED PROBLEMS;

QUEUEING THEORY;

EID: 72249085365     PISSN: 02570130     EISSN: 15729443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11134-009-9147-4     Document Type: Article

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