On the Discrete-Time Version of the Distributional Little's Law

이산시간 대기행렬시스템에 대한 분포적 Little의 법칙의 활용

  • Kim, Nam-Ki (Department of Industrial Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Chae, Kyung-Chul (Department of Industrial Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
  • 김남기 (한국과학기술원 산업공학과) ;
  • 채경철 (한국과학기술원 산업공학과)
  • Received : 20010800
  • Accepted : 20010900
  • Published : 2001.12.31

Abstract

We present a discrete-time version of the distributional Little's law, of which the continuous-time version is well known. Then we extend it to the queue in which two or more customers may depart at the same time. As a demonstration, we apply this law to various discrete-time queues such as the standard Geom/G/1 queue, the Geom/G/1 queue with vacations, the multi-server Geom/D/c queue, and the bulk-service Geom/$G^b$/1 queue. As a result, we obtain the probability generating functions of the numbers in system/queue and the waiting times in system/queue for those queues.

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