Services within a busy period of an M/M/1 queue and Dyck paths

We analyze the service times of customers in a stable M/M/1 queue in equilibrium depending on their position in a busy period. We give the law of the service of a customer at the beginning, at the end, or in the middle of the busy period. It enables as a by-product to prove that the process of instants of beginning of services is not Poisson. We then proceed to a more precise analysis. We consider a family of polynomial generating series associated with Dyck paths of length 2n and we show that they provide the correlation function of the successive services in a busy period with n + 1 customers.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2007
• Where: CORR
• Authors: Moez Draief, Jean Mairesse
• Keywords: Busy Period, CORR 2007, Customers, Education, Service Times