A Stochastic System with Scheduled Secondary Inputs

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.19.2.436

Stochastic systems with multiple inputs are common in practice. This paper investigates such a system with random and scheduled inputs, and determines the equilibrium behavior of the basic process (a waiting-time process if the system is a queue, or a storage process if it is a storage system) by reducing the problem to the solution of an integral equation, which is solved by the method of factorization.

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