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Estimation of the traffic intensity in a piecewise-stationary Mt/Gt/1 queue with probing

Antunes, Nelson; Jacinto, G.; Pacheco, António; Wichelhaus, C.

ACM Sigmetrics Performance Evaluation Review, 44(2) (2016), 3-5
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3003977.3003979

We use a probing strategy to estimate the time dependent traffic intensity in an Mt/Gt/1 queue, where the arrival rate and the general service-time distribution change from one time interval to another, and derive statistical properties of the proposed estimator. We present a method to detect a switch from a stationary interval to another using a sequence of probes to improve the estimation. At the end, we compare our results with two estimators proposed in the literature for the M/G/1 queue.