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AN APPROXIMATION FOR THE QUEUE LENGTH DISTRIBUTION IN A MULTI-SERVER RETRIAL QUEUE

  • Kim, Jeongsim (Department of Mathematics Education, Chungbuk National University)
  • Received : 2015.12.30
  • Accepted : 2016.02.05
  • Published : 2016.02.15
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Abstract

Multi-server queueing systems with retrials are widely used to model problems in a call center. We present an explicit formula for an approximation of the queue length distribution in a multi-server retrial queue, by using the Lerch transcendent. Accuracy of our approximation is shown in the numerical examples.

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