Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Volume 7 (2001), Issue 5, Pages 433-454
doi:10.1155/S1024123X01001727
Abstract
The transient solution is obtained analytically using continued fractions for a state-dependent birth-death queue in which potential customers are discouraged by the queue length. This queueing system is then compared with the well-known infinite server queueing system which has the same steady state solution as the model under consideration, whereas their transient solutions are different. A natural measure of speed of convergence of the mean number in the system to its stationarity is also computed.