Approximate Stochastic Behavior of n-Server Service Systems with Large n
by Gordon F. Newell
I. General Formulation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Graphical Representations -- 3. Stochastic Properties -- II. Approximation Methods -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Approximations — No Customer Queue -- 3. Approximations with Queueing and Large Sk = s -- 4. Queueing with Random S, CS ?1 -- 5. Queueing with Random S, CS ~ 1 -- III. Approximations for Short Service Times -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Deterministic Approximations -- 3. Small Queues -- 4. Transition Behavior -- 5. The Final Transition -- IV. Equilibrium Distributions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Approximation Equilibrium Distributions -- 3. Equilibrium Distributions for M/M/n -- 4. Equilibrium Distributions for G/M/n -- 5. Equilibrium Distributions for M/D/n or G/D/n -- 6. Concluding Comments -- References.