Research Reports from the Department of Operations

Document Type

Report

Publication Date

4-1-1967

Abstract

The need for the construction of tables of transition probabilities in the study of the behavior of queueing systems is discussed and general procedure of the preparation of such tables for the imbedded Markov chain analysis of the systems M/G/1 and G/M/1 is illustrated with the queue M/D/1. Two new measures of utilization and effectiveness are also proposed in the general context.

Keywords

Operations research, Queuing theory, Markov processes, Distribution (Probability theory), Mathematical optimization

Publication Title

Technical Memorandums from the Department of Operations, School of Management, Case Western Reserve University

Issue

Technical memorandum no. 82

Rights

This work is in the public domain and may be freely downloaded for personal or academic use

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