Finite customer-pool queues

Onno Boxma; Offer Kella; Michel Mandjes

doi:10.1016/j.orl.2025.107267

Finite customer-pool queues

Onno Boxma, Offer Kella, Michel Mandjes

Stochastic Operations Research

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In this paper we consider an M/G/1-type queue fed by a finite customer-pool. In terms of transforms, we characterize the time-dependent distribution of the number of customers and the workload, as well as the associated waiting times.

Original language	English
Article number	107267
Number of pages	6
Journal	Operations Research Letters
Volume	60
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orl.2025.107267
Publication status	Published - May 2025

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Finite-customer models
Laplace-Stieltjes transform
Queueing

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