On the Busy Period of an M/G/1/K Queue

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.42.1.192

The joint distribution of the length of a busy period and the number of customers served during that busy period in an M/G/1 queue with a finite capacity is expressed as coefficients of a power-series expansion of an explicit function. This new result is related to the previous result by T. J. Harris (1971). An error in his result is found and corrected.

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