The Number Served in a Queue

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.14.1.137

A single-server queue with Poisson arrivals and exponential service is studied to obtain the joint probability distribution of the number in the system at time t and the cumulative number already served at time t. The probability that k are served in time t is then determined.

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