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Number of Emergency Units Busy at Alarms Which Require Multiple Servers
Jan 1, 1971
An Extension of Erlang's Formulas Which Distinguishes Individual Servers
ResearchPublished 1971
The mathematical proof of a result used in R-532 — concerning the areas served by two emergency units — together with related findings about certain n-unit systems. For a model in which the units cooperate in responding to calls in a region, the steady-state probability of finding a particular unit or specified combinations of units busy is found for an arbitrary service-time distribution. (See also R-531, R-532, R-533.)
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- Year: 1971
- Pages: 21
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.7249/pubs
- Document Number: R-567-NYC/HUD
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Chaiken, Jan M. and Edward Ignall, An Extension of Erlang's Formulas Which Distinguishes Individual Servers, RAND Corporation, R-567-NYC/HUD, 1971. As of July 10, 2026: https://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R0567.html
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Chaiken, Jan M. and Edward Ignall, An Extension of Erlang's Formulas Which Distinguishes Individual Servers. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1971. https://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R0567.html.
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