A procedure for generating time‐dependent arrivals for queueing simulations

George S. Fishman and Edward P. C. Kao

Naval Research Logistics Quarterly, 1977, vol. 24, issue 4, 661-666

Abstract: This paper presents a method for modeling cyclic inputs to a congested system in a discrete event digital simulation. Specifically, we express the mean of the interarrival time conditional on the last arrival as a linear combination of harmonic components whose coefficients can be determined by stepwise regression. We also assume that the conditional interarrival time normalized by its corresponding mean follows a distribution that is independent of time. The result can, in turn, be used to generate the desired input for a simulation, An example based on a set of actual data is used to illustrate the process of parameter estimation for the model.

Date: 1977
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