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Conditioned limit theorem for virtual waiting time process of the GI/G/1 queue

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We prove that in the queueing system GI/G/1 with traffic intensity one, the virtual waiting time process suitably scaled, normed and conditioned by the event that the length of the first busy period exceeds n converges to the Brownian meander process, as n →∞.

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Topolski, K. Conditioned limit theorem for virtual waiting time process of the GI/G/1 queue. Queueing Syst 3, 377–384 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01157857

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