Maximum Entropy Principle for Queueing Theory

  • SungJin Ahn (Department of Statistics, and Information & Telecommunication Research Center, Gyeongsang National Univ., Chinju 660-701, Korea) ;
  • DongHoon Lim (Department of Statistics, and Information & Telecommunication Research Center, Gyeongsang National Univ., Chinju 660-701, Korea) ;
  • SooTaek Kim (Department of Statistics, and Information & Telecommunication Research Center, Gyeongsang National Univ., Chinju 660-701, Korea)
  • Published : 1997.08.01

Abstract

We attempt to get a probabilistic model of a queueing system in the maximum entropy condition. Applying the maximum entropy principle to the queueing system, we obtain the most uncertain probability model compatible with the available information expressed by moments.

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