A Closure Approximation for the Nonstationary M/M/s Queue
- 1 June 1979
- journal article
- Published by Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) in Management Science
- Vol. 25 (6) , 522-534
- https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.25.6.522
Abstract
Typical queues do not have constant arrival rates. This paper discusses effective computational methods for dealing with queues having nonstationary arrival processes. It presents a computationally undemanding approximate method for finding the time dependent mean and standard deviation of the number of customers in an s server queueing system with time-varying arrival and service rates. Results are exhibited for various 1 and 3 server queues with constant service rates and sinusoidal components in the arrival rate.Keywords
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