Technical Note—The Optimal Estimation of the Expected Number in a M / D /∞ Queueing System

W. K. Grassmann
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W. K. Grassmann: University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada

Operations Research, 1981, vol. 29, issue 6, 1208-1211

Abstract: This paper shows that in the M / D /∞ queueing system with service time S , the optimal way to estimate the expected number in the system is by sampling the system at time 0, S , 2 S , …, kS . In this way, the best unbiased estimate from a sampling interval of length T = kS can be obtained.

Keywords: 701 estimation in the M/D/(infinity) queueing system; 767 estimation of the expected number in queues (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1981
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