On the Existence of Moments for the Busy Period in a Single-Server Queue

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1287/moor.1030.0074

We obtain sufficient conditions for the finiteness of the moments of the single-server queue busy period in discrete and continuous time. In the cases of power and exponential moments, the conditions found coincide with the known necessary ones.

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