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| author | Ko, Young Myoung Pender, Jamol Xu, Jin |
| author_facet | Ko, Young Myoung Pender, Jamol Xu, Jin |
| contents | In this paper, we investigate the number of customers that overlap or coincide with a virtual customer in an Erlang-A queue. Our study provides a novel approach that exploits fluid and diffusion limits for the queue to approximate the mean and variance of the number of overlapping customers. We conduct a detailed analysis of the fluid and diffusion limit differential equations to derive these approximations. We also construct new accurate approximations for the mean and variance of the waiting time in the Erlang-A queue by combining fluid limits with the polygamma function. Our findings have important implications for queueing theory and evaluating the overlap risk of more complicated service systems. |
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| spellingShingle | The Number of Overlapping Customers in Erlang-A Queues: An Asymptotic Approach Ko, Young Myoung Pender, Jamol Xu, Jin Probability Optimization and Control In this paper, we investigate the number of customers that overlap or coincide with a virtual customer in an Erlang-A queue. Our study provides a novel approach that exploits fluid and diffusion limits for the queue to approximate the mean and variance of the number of overlapping customers. We conduct a detailed analysis of the fluid and diffusion limit differential equations to derive these approximations. We also construct new accurate approximations for the mean and variance of the waiting time in the Erlang-A queue by combining fluid limits with the polygamma function. Our findings have important implications for queueing theory and evaluating the overlap risk of more complicated service systems. |
| title | The Number of Overlapping Customers in Erlang-A Queues: An Asymptotic Approach |
| topic | Probability Optimization and Control |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.04684 |