{"title":"The number of overlapping customers","authors":"Onno Boxma","doi":"10.1016/j.orl.2024.107203","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We consider the number of overlapping customers in several single- and multiserver queues, i.e., the number of customers whose visit to a service system at some point in time has an overlap with that of a tagged customer. Restricting ourself to the FCFS policy, we obtain the probability generating function and moments of the number of overlaps in the <span><math><mi>M</mi><mo>/</mo><mi>G</mi><mo>/</mo><mn>1</mn></math></span>, <span><math><mi>M</mi><mo>/</mo><mi>G</mi><mo>/</mo><mn>1</mn><mo>/</mo><mi>N</mi></math></span>, <span><math><mi>M</mi><mo>/</mo><mi>M</mi><mo>/</mo><mi>c</mi></math></span> and <span><math><mi>G</mi><mo>/</mo><mi>M</mi><mo>/</mo><mi>c</mi></math></span> queue and (as an approximation) the <span><math><mi>M</mi><mo>/</mo><mi>G</mi><mo>/</mo><mi>c</mi></math></span> queue.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54682,"journal":{"name":"Operations Research Letters","volume":"57 ","pages":"Article 107203"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8000,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Operations Research Letters","FirstCategoryId":"91","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167637724001391","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"OPERATIONS RESEARCH & MANAGEMENT SCIENCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We consider the number of overlapping customers in several single- and multiserver queues, i.e., the number of customers whose visit to a service system at some point in time has an overlap with that of a tagged customer. Restricting ourself to the FCFS policy, we obtain the probability generating function and moments of the number of overlaps in the , , and queue and (as an approximation) the queue.
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