On the relation between customer and time averages in queues
- 1 September 1971
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Applied Probability
- Vol. 8 (3), 508-520
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3212174
Abstract
Little [8] gave conditions sufficient to obtain the formulaL=λW, whereLis the time average queue size,Wis the expected wait in queue, andλis the arrival rate of customers. This formula is applicable to a very general class of queuing models and is one of the most useful results in queuing theory.Keywords
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