11.5. 11.5. The Queue

Similarly to the previous systems it is easy to see that the number of customers in the system, that is the process is a birth-death process with rates

Hence the steady-state distribution can be obtained as

That is

showing that follows a Poisson law with parameter .

It is easy to see that the performance measures can be computed as

It can be proved that these formulas remain valid for an system as well where

  Java applets for direct calculations can be found at 

  http://irh.inf.unideb.hu/user/jsztrik/education/03/EN/MMc/MMc.html