Letter to the Editor—Some Remarks Concerning the Departure Process of a Queue with Poisson Arrivals and no Balking

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.15.5.972

This note gives a technique to obtain for a queue with Poisson arrivals and no balking, the joint distribution of the number of departures during (0, t⌋ and the queue length at t from the marginal distribution of the queue length at t. As an illustration the joint distribution for the queuing system M/G/1 is given.

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