WHEN A QUEUE LOOKS THE SAME TO AN ARRIVING CUSTOMER AS TO AN OBSERVER,
Abstract
It seems intuitively reasonable that a queue with a Poisson arrival distribution should appear the same to an arriving customer as it does to an external observer, since the intuitive meaning of the Poisson arrival distribution is that the arrival of each customer is independent of anything else going on in the queue. This result has been used by various authors, but there does not appear to be a rigorous proof of it in the literature. The purpose of this note is to provide such a proof. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 1968
- Accession Number
- AD0680744
Entities
People
- Ralph Strauch
Organizations
- RAND Corporation