KENDALL’S NOTATION
Kendall’s Notation is a system of notation according to which the various characteristics of a queuing model are identified.
Kendall (Kendall, 1951) has introduced a set of notations which have become standard in the literature of queuing models. A general queuing system is denoted by (a/b/c): (d/e) where
| a | = | probability distribution of the interarrival time. |
| b | = | probability distribution of the service time. |
| c | = | number of servers in the system. |
| d | = | maximum number of customers allowed in the system. |
| e | = | queue discipline |
In addition, the size of the population is important for certain types of queuing problem although not explicitly mentioned in the Kendall’s notation. Traditionally, the exponential distribution ...
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