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The total waiting time in a busy period of a stable single-server queue, I.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

D. J. Daley*
Affiliation:
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland

Extract

A quantity of particular interest in the study of (road) traffic jams is the total waiting time X of all vehicles involved in a given hold-up (Gaver (1969): see note following (2.3) below and the first paragraph of Section 5). With certain assumptions on the process this random variable X is the same as the sum of waiting times of customers in a busy period of a GI/G/1 queueing system, and it is the object of this paper and its sequel to study the random variable in the queueing theory context.

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