Quasi-stationary distributions and one-dimensional circuit-switched networks
- 1 March 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Applied Probability
- Vol. 24 (04), 965-977
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021900200116821
Abstract
We discuss the quasi-stationary distribution obtained when a simple birth and death process is conditioned on never exceeding K. An application of this model to one-dimensional circuit-switched communication networks is described, and some special cases examined.Keywords
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