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Upper bounds on work in system for multichannel queues

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

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

Previously derived sample path upper bounds for multi-channel work in system and work in queue are shown to be false. A new proof is given for the corresponding stochastic bounds on these quantities.

Keywords

STOCHASTIC UPPER BOUNDSAMPLE PATHINEQUALITIESCYCLIC ASSIGNMENT

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Short Communications
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Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , June 1987 , pp. 547 - 551
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1987 

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