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Queueing theory

the resource in a queueing model that processes waiting customers one at a time at some service rate.

In queueing theory, a server is the resource that processes customers waiting in a queue: in a model such as the single-server M/M/1 queue, arrivals wait in line and are served one at a time at some service rate, and a system may have one server or several in parallel. Kendall's Stochastic Processes Occurring in the Theory of Queues introduced the notation and the imbedded-Markov-chain analysis by which such systems, including the number of their servers, are described. The referent is an abstract service station in a mathematical model of waiting lines, counted and parameterised, not a physical computer, a tennis player, or a person waiting tables.[1]

Unit: A service channel in a queue, by its service rate and utilisation
Recovery means: Not applicable
Measured by: Characterised in queueing models by service rate, utilisation, and the number of servers

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References

Kendall, D. G. (1953). Stochastic processes occurring in the theory of queues and their analysis by the method of the imbedded Markov chain. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 24(3), 338–354. https://doi.org/10.1214/aoms/1177728975

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