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Sample-path derivations of the excess, age, and spread distributions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Ronald W. Wolff
Ronald W. Wolff*
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley
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∗ Postal address: College of Engineering, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
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Abstract

The familiar limiting distributions of excess, age, and spread are derived on sample paths, where these distributions are fractions of time. Similar results are obtained for the distribution of remaining service at a queue. For stochastic processes, where specified limits exist as finite constants with probability 1, the derived sample-path results are shown to imply that the same limiting distributions hold, where in a stochastic setting, these distributions may be defined in a more conventional way.

Keywords

LIMITING DISTRIBUTIONSREMAINING SERVICETIME AVERAGEQUEUE

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Short Communications
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Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , June 1988 , pp. 432 - 436
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Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1988 

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